Vinnie Langdon: Knox Mine Disaster

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Published on December 10, 2015 9:52:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETs5AgzwJcc

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I went to go find out myself where exactly the Knox Mine Disaster took place!

Here's a video of my visit to the Knox Mine Disaster Site. The Knox Mine disaster was a mining accident on January 22, 1959, that is widely credited with single-handedly killing the mining industry in the Northern Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania. The Susquehanna River broke through into the many interconnected mine galleries in the Wyoming Valley between west/right-bank town of Exeter, Pennsylvania and Port Griffith, a left/east bank town in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, near Pittston. Mitigation efforts created several new islands between the two towns and altered the western-side flow of the Susquehanna around these.