An explosion at Oliver Powder Mills in Laurel Run on Wilkes-Barre Mountain was heard from Nanticoke to Pittston on Aug. 4, 1904. A father was killed while his son and two girls were injured in the ...
HOLLENBACK TWP. – Ron Hall led hikers down a gorge and spent two hours pointing out ruins of a gunpowder mill along the Big Wapwallopen Creek before he paused and asked the men in his group to remove ...