“Eckley Miners” Village is an example of a planned nineteenth century industrial coal mining town. Companies often designed and constructed rural communities to house their employees in close proximity to the collieries or factories at which they worked, which allowed the company to maintain a greater control over their employees. Eckley Miners” Village represents the lives of immigrant anthracite coal miners and their families as they lived through the industrial revolution.”
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