Sugar Notch Colliery, Luzerne County | Historic 1873 Mining Description
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Sugar Notch Colliery, Luzerne County | Historic 1873 Mining Description
This photograph shows what is likely a newly constructed breaker at the Sugar Notch Colliery just southwest of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in the years after the Civil War. Below is a vivid description of the Luzerne County mining operation from an 1873 guidebook to the Lehigh Valley Railroad: Sugar Notch So called from the collieries formerly owned by Parrish and Thomas, which, with uniformly painted breakers and dwellings, and the neat characte…
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