Western Middle Anthracite Field
The Western Middle Anthracite Field is a large basin containing veins of anthracite coal found in Pennsylvania in the Eastern United States. The region is in the Appalachian Mountains and is the third-largest anthracite field in the anthracite region in Eastern Pennsylvania behind the Southern and Northern Fields.
This field is located directly above the Southern Anthracite Field strays the line between Schuylkill County, PA and Northumberland County, PA in Central Eastern Pennsylvania.History
Much of the history of the Western Middle Anthracite Field aligns with much of the other significant events in the Coal Region in Pennsylvania. Yet, the region is specifically famous for housing the town of Shenandoah, PA, the famous hotbed of unionization in the coaling industry and of the Molly Maguires in the 1870s. In the 1890s, the two Schuylkill fields, the Southern and the Western Middle Fields, were a hotbed of the United Mine Workers Union. In 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt had to send in US National Guard troops to the region during the 1902 Coal Strike and famously laid out his new precedent on solving labor disputes, holding both the company and its workers in equal regard.
