Cooks Run, Pennsylvania

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Cooks Run is an unincorporated community within Noyes Township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] [2] [3]

Cooks Run was first settled around the time of the American Revolution or shortly after and was known for many years as McGinley's Bottom. [3] At that time, Cooks Run was Pine Creek township, Northumberland county. [3]

On November 3, 1888, a disaster occurred at the Kettle Creek Mine at Cooks Run, killing 17 people. The explosion was caused by a drill post falling on a supply of dynamite and caps that had just been brought into the mine. The explosion was propagated by coal dust throughout most of the mine and up the airshaft. [4] [5]

There is also a stream in Clinton County, Pennsylvania known as Cooks Run near Renovo. [6] The stream used to be a popular place to fish, but has been polluted for decades. [7] [8] In 2017, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection announced a $7 million project that could potentially fix this problem. [8]

The Cooks Run Restoration project has been a long-term effort to turn a surface mine back into a forest setting for humans and wildlife. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cooks Run Populated Place Profile / Clinton County, Pennsylvania Data". pennsylvania.hometownlocator.com.
  2. ↑ "Cooks Run (Clinton County, Pennsylvania): Community Profile". RoadsideThoughts.
  3. 1 2 3 "TOWNSHIPS OF CLINTON COUNTY". www.clintoncogensociety.org.
  4. ↑ "Indian Villages and Place Names of North Central Pennsylvania". www.ncpenn.com.
  5. ↑ "Lock Haven, PA., Thursday, November 8, 1888". www.clintoncogensociety.org.
  6. ↑ "Cooks Run Fishing near Renovo, Pennsylvania - HookandBullet.com". www.hookandbullet.com.
  7. ↑ "Forty Years of AMD in Cooks Run – Camp Run and Rock Ru". July 12, 2017.
  8. 1 2 "Cleaning Polluted Streams in Clinton County". August 1, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Coal mine reclamation project will clean up Cook's Run - News, Sports, Jobs - The Express". www.lockhaven.com.

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