Coaldale
COALDALE, 80.2 m. (1,060 alt., 6,921 pop.), sprawled on a blackened hillside, is surrounded by immense culm piles that frequently reach into miners' back yards. Underlying mine tunnels now and again cause the ground to settle and open wide cracks in the streets. The pits and a small shirt factory provide employment.
Through the heavily wooded section between Coaldale and Tamaqua, US 209 is paralleled (R) by a high culm bank; clusters of miners' shacks occupy an occasional clearing.
Taken from Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State, Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Pennsylvania. New York: Oxford University Press, 1940.
Annotations
Commemorative video for St. Mary's Church on YouTube
Coaldale featured on CNN during 2008 primary election
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/13/coaldale.pa/index.html
Some images from the Library of Congress
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c02973
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c35365
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c52712
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