The Giant Anvil Found in a Pennsylvania Coal Seam in 1871 — The Seneca Said It Was Left Behind

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In October 1871, three hundred and eighty feet beneath the south side of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a laborer dressing the bottom of a coal face in the Baltimore vein struck something that sang. Twenty men took three days to clear the coal away from it. It was a blacksmith's anvil, fifteen feet long, its face eight feet and one inch above the floor, worn from edge to edge by the strokes of a hammer as wide as a dishpan. The coal around it was unbroken.

The mine boss struck it once to hear if the iron was cracked. Three slow blows came back from below, from no place where any mine had ever been driven. The colliery smith worked out a sum on the side of a powder keg. Under the anvil the engineer found stone footing blocks on four scale-tree stumps, cut off level, and for six working days the crew uncovered the rest of a forge.

A clerk named Amos Stark kept the file for thirty-eight years. At the back of it are two sheets copied from the notes of Jeremiah Curtin, who recorded the Seneca at Cattaraugus in 1883, and what an old woman of the Snipe clan said when she heard what the iron was standing on. The Seneca already had a name for it: Genonsgwa, the Stone Coats.

Why did every later mine map show a barrier of untouched coal around the old east gangway of Number Four, and why does no document explain it?


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