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  • Collection: Slate Quarries

Quarry.jpg
This could be the Penn Lynn quarry operaation, but I am not sure and will have to do some more study of the image.

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Quarry4.jpg
Typical scene around a quarry with the cables used to hoist slate out of the quarry.

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Reduced.jpg
Old glass slide of the Franklin quarry showing the horizontal beds of slate.

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Emerald Slate Workers.jpg
Postcard showing two works in process of splitting and trimming roofing slates in Emerald, PA (near Slatington)

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371 Suicide webp.png
Has always been known as the suicide. Located north of Welshtown Road, east of Skeet Club Road.

Tunnel Quarry Marker web.jpg
On Welshtown Road, right at the Slatington borough line.

Slateworkers.jpg
Unidentified workers at a quarry; the Blue Mountain is barely visible in the background.
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