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From: GRSNP Prez <>
Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] mines
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 05:35:57 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20000502011912.96070.qmail@hotmail.com>


Patti, others;

Those back-yard mines were called "Dog holes" as were those non-coal baron
controlled larger mines worked by a few enterprising miners on a limited
budget.
Enjoy
Joe Bryer

At 01:19 AM 5/2/00 +0000, 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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