The Chittenden breaker and shaft were located in the area west of Susquehanna Avenue and north of Hoover St. It is according to a brief note in the Pa Mine Inspectors Reports, in 1865 the first coal breaker, and shaft or slope worked or constructed in Old Forge.

It probably had small breaker and did not last long as area maps for 1888 show mine tracks connecting the Chittenden mine with the Carbon Hill colliery.

No other information has been found on this breaker, and its records may be lost to time.

The earliest record for the Pine is that the shaft was being sunk by the Bunder Construction Co in 1872. The Pine had the distinction of being the first Mine Inspector Report listing for a miner killed in the mines of Old Forge. He was James Reese, and on February 15, 1872 he fell to his death in the shaft he was sinking.

At the time the area along Keyser Ave belonged to Old Forge Township, it was annexed to Taylor in 1902. Pine was an over shaft type breaker with a slope, and run by the DL&W Co. It was later run by the Glen Alden Coal Co in 1921 when the new company was formed from the DL&W to separate its coal and railroad divisions.

Records from 1940 show the Pyne-Taylor Coal Co processing 214,135 tons of coal and employing 374 employees that year.

Mining operations continued into the early 1960's as I remember my dad and I waiting to pick up my grandfather Peter Horyczon, when he rode up the slope on a trip of mine cars at the end of his shift. Coal was shipped to the Moffat breaker for processing. At that time all that remained were the slope, tipple, fan house and repair shop.

The repair shop still stands today as a car lot, 286 Corp. In side, the concrete floor of the east side of the building still contain the mine tracks and remains of 4 turntables used to set mine cars of to areas for repair. The oil house is the first small building from Keyser Ave., and the fan house is used for storage by the A + Power Wash Inc. Last year A+ uncovered a buried metal 7 ton mine car on their property.

Records between 1872 and 1902 show 6,716,644 tons of coal produced.

Recently discovered DL&W high quality photos of the Pine in 1905 were found in the Easton Canal Museum Archives by Prof. Bob Wolinski.

The Old Forge Colliery was built by the Pennsylvania Coal Co in 1882 and began processing coal in 1884. The large colliery was not an over shaft design but had its coal brought to it from mines a distance away. The colliery was located in the area near the end of Howard St., and the Lackawanna River.

It had the largest railroad staging yard of any colliery in town, with a connection to the DL&W main line and a line crossing the Lackawanna River up through Moosic along Mill Creek, to connect with the D&H main in Avoca. It was the largest of the collieries in town, with a inclined plane of 4 tracks wide to move loaded mine cars to the top of the structure.

It had a capacity to process 1800 tons a day and was destroyed by fire in 1903. The new modem breaker erected on the same site had a capacity of 2500 tons of coal processed a day. It was the test site for the new Menzies Cone Separator used in separating coal from the waist rock. A washery was later added.

In 1906 the Colliery had the largest power generation plant in the area, and supplied electrical power to the Pennsylvania Coal Co. (PCC) No 1 and No 2 shafts & Slope, the Coray slope, Marcy, Clark, and Lawrence drifts, Central breaker in Avoca and its No13 shaft.

At the height of production, coal was being processed from the Marcy and Clark Drifts, No 1 Shaft and Slope, No 2 Shaft and Slope, and the 2 Lawrence Drifts.

The colliery then called the Morgan operated until around 1940. It was destroyed by fire in 1976.

Pa. Mine Inspector Reports show that between 1884 and 1937 about 19,727,191 tons of coal was produced.

The Lawrence colliery was actually located just over the Old Forge township line in Ransom Township, above Connells Patch. It was operated by the Connell Coal Co, and in 1894 was working 2 drifts and a shaft.

In 1897 the Lawrence, also known as Old Larry was abandoned. All coal mined at the shaft and drifts were taken underground by rail to the William A. where the cars were lifted to the surface for processing at the breaker.

Old Larry was later used as a washery from 1906 to 1910 for processing the coal culm piles.

It has the largest remains of only 3 collieries sites in present day Old Forge where any structure can be seen. It was served by the LVRR off the Austin Branch out of Coxton.

Records indicate between 1894 and 1910 about 1,171,127 tons of coal were produced.