Anthracite Heritage Museum Marks Knox Mine Disaster’s 57th Anniversary

Scranton—The Anthracite Heritage Museum in McDade Park will commemorate the powerful story of the Knox Mine Disaster on Saturday, January 23, 2015, at 2 p.m., marking 57 years since January 22, 1959, when the ice-laden waters of the Susquehanna River broke into the Knox Mine at Port Griffith, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania sweeping away twelve men.\r\n\r\nThe Knox disaster program is open free of charge to the public.  Admission is charged for the Museum’s main exhibit, Anthracite People: Immigration & Ethnicity in Pennsylvania’s Hard Coal Region, and temporary exhibitions.\r\n\r\nClick here for more information about this event.