Peach Orchard Vertical Shafts

The two shafts as seen from Bing Maps, look at the two "boxed" areas. Those are the fences that go around the shafts. If you look closely, you can see the shaft wall on the left one.

These two filled shafts were once part of the Peach Orchard Colliery. I don't have much information about this colliery and to my knowledge all buildings to it have been torn down. I was going to link on site on here that had photos of several buildings but the site is currently down but I remember it mentioned those buildings were torn down to make way for the extension of the North Cross Valley Expressway. So, as far as I know, these two shafts are all that remains to the Peach Orchard Colliery. It appears they were filled some time ago but the fill has been settling. The larger shaft has two openings. The purpose for that was so the miners and coal can be taken up to the surface at once, coal on one side and miners on the other side.

Looking over the fence at the one side of the double sided shaft. Due to the fill settling, you can see part of the wall.

The other side of the shaft. The fill has subsided much more on this side.

The other shaft is much closer to the road and you may drive right past it and not even know that it's a shaft.

The other shaft with Wilkes-Barre Boulevard and the North Cross Valley Expressway (309) in view. 

Looking down the filled shaft.

These photos were taken during December of 2010 and March of 2011. I'm sure since then, the fill has settled some more due to all the rain we've been getting.