CARBON HILL NOTES, BUREAU OF MINES

The Carbon Hill Colliery and shafts are first recorded in 1873, Department of Mine Inspector Reports, as being in Lackawanna Township, on a topo map of the area. This was to become Old Forge in 1899. It was located near what is now Lincoln St. off Moosic Rd. The colliery was served by a switch off the Lackawanna & Bloomsburg Railroad, that later became the DL&W. The switch ran up a grade to the top of the ridge above the Lackawanna river. The old roadbed is still visible over most of the grade. The Colliery was leased to the Malvern & Scott Co.in1870 when it was purchased by the Glenwood Coal Co. They worked the Carbon Hill Vein. Recent information just found has the Chittenden Shaft working with the Carbon Hill Colliery in 1888. A map shows a set of rail from the Shaft, crossing Moosic Rd. to the Colliery. This is before the SCRR was laid crossing Moosic Rd. farther down.