SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, Pa. — Our St. Patrick's Day trip Back Down The Pennsylvania Road comes with a history lesson, all about the Irish miners in Schuylkill County who worked hard for a better life.

The migration from Ireland coincided with the rise of anthracite coal, and many came to Schuylkill County to work in the mines. It’s said that Irish miners went to work when it was dark ...

What is the Irish Catholic experience ... families risked eviction without forewarning. Coal companies required miners to purchase all goods and mining supplies through their stores, which ...

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West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

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Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had time to volunteer as firefighters. Yet they did, according to firefighting ...