Reopening a 120 Year Old Coal Mine in Scranton PA!
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- čas přidán 16. 03. 2022
- Today, after several months of meeting with the Scranton Municipal Recreational Authority, and Pennsylvania Deep Mine Saftey, the UGM team is excited to announce that we have taken the first steps in reopening the 120 year old Historic Brooks Drift Mine, located at Nay Aug Park, to the public!
The Brooks Mine was driven in 1902, as part of the Scranton School of Mines, and later was used as a tourist attraction within Nay Aug Park. After being closed for nearly 50 years, the UGM crew had the honor of opening the mine to complete an inspection of the drift. We are now compiling a feasibility study, compliant with state anthracite mining law, to determine the next steps toward rehabilitating the mine.
We have significant plans for this special piece of local anthracite history. The entire UGM crew is excited to share the rehabilitation of this exhibition coal mine with you. Also, Scranton taxpayers not to worry, UGM is planning to use private donations, sponsors and grants to fund this passion project.
we were lucky enough to go in the mine back around 2005, as part of my brothers Eagle scout project, we took the old rotted doors off the entrance and i built and installed the current gates as one of my first ever welding projects in high school, cool to still see them there
A loaded car so close to the entrance nice.Beautiful portal.
My greal uncle worked in the coal mines in Scranton Pa at 14 years old to support his family
Outstanding! I was in there in 1975. Remember it well. Looking forward to seeing it open again.
I grew up in east scranton & always wondered what it looked like behind those steel bars & doors. this is a cool & worthwhile project.
This is so awesome. I grew up in the hill section and spent my childhood at Nay Aug park. The mine was always closed off and I never had the opportunity to get inside. Thanks for doing this.
Thank you for doing this. I'm very excited about this project.
We loved the tour last Saturday, well done!
Fellas as a former Eastern Kentucky underground coal miner, I would like to get the chance your getting by being able to go back in time and hopefully try to bring this mines back to life. Looking forward to your next video. Stay safe and God bless Gentlemen. Have a great day.
Great work, guys! I had no idea the mine went back that far. I always assumed that since it was a 'model mine' it just went straight back a little ways and ended. VERY cool!
Glad you are preserving our heritage and history. I share your excitement!!
Thanks for taking on this restoration project! I remember going into that mine in my youth. My ancestors were Welsh coal miners and getting a feel for where they had worked was a profound experience. Back then there were mannequins dressed in miner's gear toward the back of the mine.
That drift is so well preserved. Hope you accomplish your goals. Would love to see it in person.
That's cool! Thanks for sharing that experience.
Retired east ky underground miner/roof bolter,can't wait see what you doing with it,thanks for the video
Awesome 👏 😎 I love mine history and exploring them!
Good luck. My dad was a miner at the greenwood mines, Tamaqua.
Sometimes I look up CZcams videos of my hometown Scranton. I live in North Carolina I’ve been living down here off and on since 2004 when I moved down here for my parents bought a house when I was in high school in North Carolina. I miss Scranton. I do have some family that live up there. We always used to go to Nat Aug Park and we used to go play around in the rocks at this old mine. If I’m not mistaken there’s a sign somewhere and it has my great great grandfather‘s name on it he was a coalminer in there. I think his last name was Davis? My great great grandmother came over in the titanic and she survived. She was buried in a welsh cemetery somewhere in the area in Lackawanna County. I just don’t recall where. But her fathers last name and her surname was Davis. I’ll have to ask my grandma or my mother.
The mine was always a destination on a hot summer day.
We used to look into there as kids to try to see what was in there. I enjoy learning about the mining heritage in nepa. Glad to see this opened going to definitely check it out!!