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From: Walt Stevens <>
Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] mines
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 19:45:00 -0600
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Patti,
When I was growing up back there in the '50s, they called them "dog
holes". For some people it was the primary source of income.

Walt in CO.

pat erhard wrote:
>
> Hi, I don't know if anyone is interested, but there are several homes in
> Scranton and Dunmore that had tunnels in their yards where miners would go
> down or come up/depending. I don't know what these were called if anything,
> but just know they were there from when I was small and would go to my Aunts
> for the summer. The house next door to her on Chestnut st. only had a board
> over it until the man put a fence around it. Patti
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