Wetlands Nature Area

Coal Dredging Ruins

Coal dredging was a lucrative business in this area at one time. Inefficient coal breakers upriver allowed coal to be washed into the Susquehanna River. This coal provided a readily available source of fuel for both homes and power plants.

Dredging machinery was used to recover the coal. As coal breakers became more efficient, the size and amount of coal decreased until it was no longer economically worthwhile to continue this industry locally. Operations ceased here in the late 1930s.

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