Pocono Record

State's slate quarries continue to struggle

PEN ARGYL (AP) — Slate is everywhere in the northeastern reaches of Northampton County. It crackles underfoot in yards. It adorns hills along the country roads. The outskirts of small towns such as ...
Morning Call PA

Slate outlives quarries that once produced it ** Deposits in county once meant good jobs for thousands and gave belt its nickname.

In the heyday of the slate industry, Northampton County boasted as many as 300 quarries. That was nearly 150 years ago. Today there are just three: Dally Slate Co. in Pen Argyl, Williams & Sons Slate ...

State of abandoned slate quarry a ‘disgrace’ as TikTok ‘living-the-dream’ visitors trash historic site

Abandoned huts, sheds and slate equipment at Dinorwig Quarry provide a haunting reminder of an industry that once roofed the ...
Lehigh Valley Live

Quarry wants to sell Pen Argyl waste slate

Pen Argyl's zoning hearing board will decide in three weeks whether the operators of a slate quarry may sell piles of slate spoils as crushed rock. John Dally, a division manager and shareholder of ...
Morning Call PA

PITMEN DEEP WITHIN A PEN ARGYL QUARRY, WORKERS CUT SLABS OF SLATE, MUCH LIKE THEIR PREDECESSORS DID A CENTURY AGO.

A trip to a slate quarry is like a step back in time. At the Dally Slate Co. in Pen Argyl, workers still pull slate from the ground much the same way it was done 100 years ago. The 58 Dally employees, ...
Morning Call PA

For Papays, slate quarrying is all in the family ** Head of Penn Big Bed Slate in Slatington to talk tonight about the industry.

Peter Papay knows slate. As president of the Penn Big Bed Slate Co., he not only worked with it for decades, but can explain why slate is the bedrock of local history. “My dad and uncles were always ...