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​

 
​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 8,125 total local obituaries--indexed alphabetically by surname; every area cemetery listing with individual tombstones indexed alphabetically by surname;  1440 birth certificates (from 1903 through 1956),  three cabinet drawers continuously growing with now a whopping 110 family trees in files and/or 60 notebooks on individuals families!; death certificate copies for most every person interrred in three local cemeteries:   Lyleville, CrossRoads, and the St. Basil the Great Catholic Cemeteries; every B.C.I. and Glendale High School Yearbook from 1950 through to the present, along with a large collection of Coalport-Irvona, HS, Beccaria Twp. HS and Reade Twp. HS 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's on county history, county atlases, history magazines, and 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 checking out our 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; Clearfield County and Cambria County history and sites; local and Pennsylvania historical sites within driving distance from Coalport; Local, Pennsylvania and general bituminous coal mining articles.  It's collections like that which has many touting our Coalport Area Coal Museum as the "hidden gem" of Clearfield County history!"