Breaking the Abandoned St. Nicholas Coal Breaker in ...
St. Nicholas Breaker. The St. Nicholas Coal Breaker, formerly located in Mahanoy City, PA, was once the largest coal breaker in the world, and was the last of its kind in the state. According to an article in the Morning Call, "Invented in the 1840s, breakers transformed large, hard-to-ignite chunks of raw anthracite into a variety of smaller ...