Hikers explore the area around the former York Iron Co. Mine in North Codorus Township, now P. Joseph Raab County Park. Guides give occasional tours of this newest county park. One of the guides, Jeri Jones, has published a book on regional geology. (See below). Background posts: What was that Eastern York County pit before it filled with water? and Eighteenth-century brownfield now parkland
Some people attach mining to the soft coal regional of western Pennsylvania or the anthracite area of northeastern Pennsylvania.
It's easy to overlook York County's mines. No piles of slag dominate local towns.
But the county has seen slate mining in its southeastern region. Active limestone mining - dolomite for fire bricks - spans areas of West Manchester. Quarrying for rock to build houses or to form road foundations has taken bites out of mountainsides.
And the excavation of iron ore was one of the most prevalent forms of mining, largely in the 19th-century.
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