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A group of adults and children assemble for this photograph between two plank fences in their "patch".
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A group of adults and children assemble for this photograph between two plank fences in their "patch" town

Credit: Courtesy Pennsylvania State Archives

Coal communities were tight-knit groups, and workers helped each other through adversity, and banded together to demand better working conditions.

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