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SOME WEB RESOURCES ON AREA HISTORY:

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Beers, D. G. Atlas of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. From Actual Surveys by and under the Direction of D. G. Beers. Philadelphia: A. Pomeroy, 1873. [Digital copies available online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/maps/pa/county/luzerne/1873/]

Bradsby, H. C., ed. History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Selections. Chicago: S. B. Nelson & Co., 1893. [Transcription available online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/luzerne/1893hist/]

Captain Clint's Place - (local history, includes images of postcards of Freeland)
http://home.epix.net/~captclint/local_scenes.html

Coal region
http://www.coalregion.com/

Coxe Family Mining Papers at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (see entry no. 3005)
http://www2.hsp.org/collections/coxe/family.html

Eckley Miners' Village
http://www.eckleyminers.org/

Eckley, on PAGenWeb website with tour description
http://www.pagenweb.org/~luzerne/eckley.htm/

Freeland Tribune, 1889-1903 - Library of Congress Chronicling America site
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87080287/

Greater Hazleton Historical Society and Museum
https://www.facebook.com/hazletonhistory/

Guide To Pennsylvania Historical Resources (thanks to Diana Walberg for this one)
http://www.areavibes.com/library/guide-to-pennsylvania-historical-resources/

Hazleton Area Public Library
http://www.hazletonlibrary.org/

Hazleton Standard-Speaker
http://www.standardspeaker.com/

Luzerne County Historical Society
http://www.luzernecountyhistory.org

Luzerne County atlas maps, 1873
http://usgwarchives.net/maps/pa/county/luzerne/1873/

Luzerne County Genealogy Project - PAGenWeb - (includes biographical sketches from Bradsby's History of Luzerne County, 1893)
http://www.pagenweb.org/~luzerne/

Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Inc. (NEPGS)
https://www.nepgs.com/

Old maps of Pennsylvania online (thank you, Charlie Gallagher)
http://www.oldmapsonline.com/
- type "Pennsylvania, USA" into search box at top

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/index.cfm
- search under "Locations" for Freeland

Pennsylvania genealogy resources from Rootsweb
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~websites/usa/pennsylvania.html

Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of Freeland (thank you, Charlie Gallagher)
https://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm/search/collection/maps1/searchterm
- type "Freeland, PA" into search box at top

Sophia Coxe Foundation & Education Center
https://www.sophiacoxefoundation.org/

Southern District List from 1872 of collieries, location, land owners (Luzerne and Carbon Counties) http://www.pagenweb.org/~luzerne/mines/1872name.htm

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