An explosion at Oliver Powder Mills in Laurel Run on Wilkes-Barre Mountain was heard from Nanticoke to Pittston on Aug. 4, 1904. A father was killed while his son and two girls were injured in the ...
HOLLENBACK TWP. – Ron Hall led hikers down a gorge and spent two hours pointing out ruins of a gunpowder mill along the Big Wapwallopen Creek before he paused and asked the men in his group to remove ...
SALISBURY — It was U.S. Patent No. 2,628,465, and it changed the life of Ralph Penley Sr. “It’s a mechanical marvel, what he did,” grandson Bill Penley says today. Back in the early 1950s, Ralph ...