Flags and bunting turned Millbrook Village's old houses into a colorful panorama as the village celebrated Independence Day.

Before the 1850s, Eckley wasn't a mining town, but a rural, forested community called Shingletown.

Eckley almost ceased to exist two years ago at the age of 155.

Explorer Rob Evans makes his way through brush, ferns and trees covering an abandoned 21-acre industrial complex.

Coal, railroad and iron turned Tamaqua into a bustling small city in the late 1800s, but it was explosives that created a boom town.

Coal, railroad and iron turned Tamaqua into a bustling small city in the late 1800s, but it was explosives that created a boom town.

If you travel along an old country road in Kunkletown, it's not unusual to pass by a barn now and then.

When the Atlas Portland Cement Company closed in 1982 Ed Pany went to homes, churches and newspapers to get the names of 2,376 people who worked at

Kristina Corbo, 22 of Reeders woke up one March morning in 2005 dizzy, off balance and nauseous.

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