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  • Collection: Slate Quarries

625 Quarry 1906 web.jpg
This is a view from a little west of the former Penn Lyn quarry, looking north across Trout Creek.

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

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

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

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

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