Carbondale

Explore the fascinating history of Carbondale, Pennsylvania with more than 200 vintage photographs and anecdotes from the locals who experienced it. The first non-native settlers arrived in Ragged Island , as Carbondale was then known, around 1802. Twenty years later, brothers William and Maurice Wurts were exploring the wilderness when they took note of several outcroppings of curious black stones . These stones turned out to be anthracite coal, and the two Philadelphia businessmen became pione