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Welcome to the opening of Mining Memories blog. This blog was the brain child of board members of the Miners Hall Museum at Franklin, Kansas. We wanted to highlight the rich mining history of Southeast Kansas.
We will be sharing interesting bits of that mining history. We welcome your comments and any additional mining related information you may wish to share.
The grand opening of Franklin’s Miners Hall Museum will be May 1, 2012. Check out the museum at www.minershallmuseum.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Also, keep in mind the Smithsonian Exhibit, “The Way We Worked,” will be held at the Miners Hall Museum, May 11 to June 23, 2013.
Born in 1944 at the old Mt. Carmel Hospital, Pittsburg, Jerry D. Lomshek has been a lifelong resident of Crawford County and the Chicopee area. The grandson of a Slovene immigrant coal miner, he became interested in history at a young age, and began researching family and local history at the age of 14. This being a lifelong passion, he has amassed a mammoth amount of local historical data over the years. He has lectured and written several manucripts concerning the history of Southeast Kansas. From his service in the Navy, and as a registered nurse, he spent 45 years involved in various aspects of health care. Since retiring, he has devoted his time to further local historical research and various community involvement.
