FILE COLLECTION:

• Museum File Collection
• Coal Museum CD and DVD Collection: Titles
• Post Office History
• Teachers Monthly Reports
• Books on Timber Rafting
• Local Miners Killed in Mines
• Coal Museum Video Collection: VHS Titles
• Yearbook Collection
• Tenant Lease List
• Patriotic Order of Americans​

​Coalport Area Coal Museum
961 Forest Street
Coalport, PA 16627
(814) 312-8620  ​(voice or text)
Email: [email protected]
Richard Snyder, Curator
     Email:  [email protected]
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Visit Us:
Sundays -- 1:00 to 5:00 PM
Thursdays -- 1:00 to 5:00 PM
*Contact us for a tour or any special request

 
​REFERENCE ROOM
Our museum's organized reference room houses a vast variety of books, files, maps and photos not only about coal mining heritage, but also a wealth of materials on Pennsylvania, Clearfield county, as well as our local "Glendale Area" history. All of this material is listed under the category--"RefRoom"--in our "Inventory" link.  Doing research on family history from the local list of surnames?  Check out our detailed Genealogy section, which includes 'how to' books, notebooks with over 8,745 total local obituaries--indexed alphabetically by surname; every area cemetery listing with individual tombstones indexed alphabetically by surname;  1440 birth certificates (from 1904 through 1956),  three cabinet drawers continuously increasing with now a whopping 110 family trees in files and/or 60 notebook binders on individuals families; death certificate copies for most every person interred in three local cemeteries:   Lyleville, CrossRoads, and the St. Basil the Great Catholic Cemeteries; every B.C.I. and Glendale High School Yearbooks from 1950 through to the present, along with a large collection of Coalport-Irvona HS, Beccaria Twp. HS, BCI High School, Reade Twp. HS and Glendale Junior-Senior High School yearbooks PLUS a large box full of the former Reade Township High School memorabilia and records.  Allow time when you visit to explore our many CD/DVD's on county history, county atlases, history magazines, and mining maps.

FILES:  Municipalities & Coal Mining
Come use our reference room if you're researching family history or just want to check out anything and everything we have about the bituminous coal mining industry. Sometimes it's fun to just go file-by-file perusing our many file cabinets  jam-packed with well over 450 documents on an interesting variety of topics such as:  our five local municipalities Coalport, Irvona, Beccaria Township, Reade Township, White Township; both Clearfield County and Cambria County history and sites; local and Pennsylvania historical sites within driving distance from Coalport; and files on general bituminous coal mining that include local area and Pennsylvania.  Our museum's wealth of information specifically on coal mining and other topics have helped three doctoral candidates acquire their Ph.D.'s and has been referenced in research for a novel!  Collections we have, once discovered, has many individuals touting our Coalport Area Coal Museum as THE "hidden gem" of Clearfield County history!