Maple Hill Colliery in Winter | Shenandoah, PA

Maple Hill Colliery in Winter | Shenandoah, PA

A cold winter settles over the former site of the Maple Hill Colliery outside Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, where the abandoned headframe still rises from the snow-covered landscape. From the Library of Congress collection In this photograph from the Library of Congress, taken in 2000, the structure stands alone amid bare shrubs, frozen ground, and the distant ridges and culm banks that once defined life in northern Schuylkill County. Maple Hill was…