Travel 300 feet beneath the earth's surface and experience the National Award Winning Historical Attraction - the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour. The once abandoned and now restored hard coal mine is a cool 53 degrees year round, and provides you the opportunity to see a day-in-the-life of the area's workers that powered the Industrial Revolution. Originally opened in 1860, the Coal Mine Tour takes you through the winding underground gangways and rock tunnel, past three different veins of hard coal, the mule boy, the nipper, the monkey vein and the dead chute. Each tour group is led by a miner, who, while walking you through the tour, explains the fascinating methods used, and the heroic efforts involved, in deep mining history.