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The first industry in Moosic was coal mining. The demand for workers created stiff competition among the coal companies and many of them sent recruiters to England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland for skilled workers. The powder business started in Moosic early with the Moosic Powder Company later to be taken over by the Dupont Powder Mills whose presence in the borough lasted almost a century.

Collieries sprung up throughout the valley and the first built in Moosic was the Starks Breaker. The company built houses near it mines and this practice became a standard procedure in the coalfields. Other collieries in Moosic were Greenwood, Hillside, Blue Goose, Springbrook, Standard, Muskrat and the Spike Island. They copied from the Stark experiment and built houses, company stores and boarding-homes. Demands for jobs brought workers form Poland, Russia, Italy and Germany to the Anthracite Fields. They came for a better life and Freedom. In our community we can still find traces of their early settlements.