Oakdale, Luzerne County Miners Refused to give up Pot of Gold

[jeff of pa]

Location is a Bit Complicated Due to Towns Either Dying or Changing names. & Not my Area. Oakdale : between Middletown and West Oakdale

West Oakdale : between Oakdale and Stockton Road. this Middletown : between Jeddo and Oakdale Republican and Herald (Pottsville, Pennsylvania) 05 Jun 1915, Sat Jeddo is a borough in Luzerne County Jeddo Borough : between Jeddo and Highland (Coal Co. offices here) Jeddo #5 : on the road between Freeland and Eckley. The Jeddo-Highland No. 5 breaker was built in 1915, closed in 1963, and destroyed in 1986. A huge powerplant with a towering smokestack built in 1933 provided electricity for mines for miles around. This breaker was the star of a black and white short about coal mining made in the early 1930s. Jeddo-Highland No. 7 breaker was built around 1926, deactivated in the mid-1990's, and demolished around 1997. A small boiler house next to the breaker was razed in the late 1970s.

 

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