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(Stackpole Books and the Pennsylvania Historical and  Museum Commission) paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"medium-description\"\u003eRecounts the momentous story of the first oil drilling, looks at the Titusville region during the short-lived oil boom, and provides a complete tour of Drake Well Museum and Park, with stops at McClintock Well #1 and the oil boomtown Pithole City.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"short-description\"\u003eA guide to the museum that preserves Pennsylvania's petroleum heritage on the site where Edwin L. Drake successfully drilled oil in 1859, launching the modern oil industry.\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"PA Historical \u0026 Museum Commission","offers":[{"title":"Default \/ 0-8117-2960-5","offer_id":183228282,"sku":"phmc-341","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0108\/3472\/products\/pennsylvania-trail-of-history-drake-well-museum_1.jpeg?v=1326472672"},{"product_id":"anthracite-heritage-museum-scranton-iron-furnaces-pennsylvania-trail-of-history-guide","title":"Anthracite Heritage Museum and Scranton Iron Furnaces","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"long-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold W. Aurand, 2002.\u003c\/b\u003e In this guidebook, the author condenses his vast knowledge of anthracite history in an overview of the people, labor, and culture of coal mining in northeastern Pennsylvania and follows with tours of the Anthracite Heritage Museum, highlighting its exhibits of objects and photographs reflecting the everyday life of coal miners and their families, and the Scranton Iron Furnaces, which memorializes an industry that relied heavily on anthracite fuel and expanded as a result of it. (Stackpole Books and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) 48 pp., 6 x 9, photos, maps. paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"medium-description\"\u003eIn this guidebook, the author condenses his vast knowledge of anthracite history in an overview of the people, labor, and culture of coal mining in northeastern Pennsylvania and follows with tours of the Anthracite Heritage Museum, highlighting its exhibits of objects and photographs reflecting the everyday life of coal miners and their families, and the Scranton Iron Furnaces, which memorializes an industry that relied heavily on anthracite fuel and expanded as a result of it.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"short-description\"\u003eA guide to the museum that explores the lives and labors of the people of Pennsylvania's hard coal region and the iron furnaces that relied on anthracite to roll the rails of the nation.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PA Historical \u0026 Museum Commission","offers":[{"title":"Default \/ 0-8117-2959-1","offer_id":183228302,"sku":"phmc-343","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0108\/3472\/products\/pennsylvania-trail-of-history-anthracite-heritage-museum-scranton-iron-furnace_1.jpeg?v=1326472674"},{"product_id":"cornwall-iron-furnace-pennsylvania-trail-of-history-guide","title":"Cornwall Iron Furnace","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"long-description\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Dieffenbach, 2003.\u003c\/b\u003e This guidebook explains the technology of ironmaking and its importance as an industry in Pennsylvania, recounts the human story of Cornwall Iron Furnace from its eighteenth-century origins to its preservation as an historic site. It guides the reader on a tour of the furnace building and other remaining structures on the site, which was once the nucleus of a great industrial plantation. (Stackpole Books and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"medium-description\"\u003eThis guidebook explains the technology of ironmaking and its importance as an industry in Pennsylvania, recounts the human story of Cornwall Iron Furnace from its eighteenth-century origins to its preservation as an historic site. It guides the reader on a tour of the furnace building and other remaining structures on the site, which was once the nucleus of a great industrial plantation.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"short-description\"\u003eA guide to the site that for a century and a half was the heart of a vast industrial plantation and is now a landmark of Pennsylvania's iron industry.\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"PA Historical \u0026 Museum Commission","offers":[{"title":"Default \/ 0-8117-2624-X","offer_id":183228312,"sku":"phmc-344","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0108\/3472\/products\/pennsylvania-trail-of-history-cornwall-iron-furnace_1.jpeg?v=1326472675"},{"product_id":"lumber-museum-pennsylvania-trail-of-history-guide","title":"Pennsylvania Lumber Museum","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"long-description\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Currin, 2005.\u003c\/b\u003e A century ago, the forests of north central Pennsylvania provided white pine and hemlock timber for much of the United States, and the region boasted two of the world's largest sawmills. The Pennsylvania Lumber Museum recreates those boom years and shows the daily operation of a lumber camp. This guidebook offers a survey of the lumber industry in Pennsylvania, a background on its activity in north central Pennsylvania, and a tour of the museum and its grounds. (Stackpole Books and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) 48 pp, 6 x 9, photos, maps. paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"medium-description\"\u003eA century ago, the forests of north central Pennsylvania provided white pine and hemlock timber for much of the United States, and the region boasted two of the world's largest sawmills. The Pennsylvania Lumber Museum recreates those boom years and shows the daily operation of a lumber camp. 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Perry, 1994. \u003c\/b\u003eThis liberally illustrated booklet provides a fascinating and comprehensive history of these historic furnaces. (PHMC \u0026amp; Anthracite Heritage Museum Associates) 48 pp., 6 x 9, illus. paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"medium-description\"\u003eDaniel K. Perry, 1994. This liberally illustrated booklet provides a fascinating and comprehensive history of these historic furnaces.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"short-description\"\u003eThis liberally illustrated booklet provides a fascinating and comprehensive history of these historic furnaces.\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"PA Historical \u0026 Museum Commission","offers":[{"title":"Default \/ 0-89271-060-8","offer_id":181921452,"sku":"phmc-1004","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0108\/3472\/products\/fine-substantial-piece-masonry.jpeg?v=1326211898"},{"product_id":"coal-and-coke-in-pennsylvania","title":"Coal and Coke in Pennsylvania","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"long-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarmen DiCiccio, 1996. \u003c\/b\u003eA comprehensive treatise on the bituminous coal and coke industry predominant in western Pennsylvania, this definitive book showcased the towns, the technology, the workers, and the economics of these important industries. 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Because the book draws on the recollections of miners and their families, industry officials, and individuals involved in the legal aftermath, it is an epic drama that is as spellbinding as it is sensational. Candid photographs of members of this cast of characters lend a human element that overshadows the gaping hole in the riverbed, the billions of gallons of water that crashed through it, and the tons of twisted equipment and machinery. 164 pp., 6x9, index, appendix, notes, charts, illus. paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"medium-description\"\u003eRobert P. Wolensky, Kenneth C. Wolensky, and Nicole H. Wolensky, 1999. The Knox Mine Disaster is much more than a history of an accident - or an industry for that matter. Because the book draws on the recollections of miners and their families, industry officials, and individuals involved in the legal aftermath, it is an epic drama that is as spellbinding as it is sensational. 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