Located north of Lorberry Gap and west of Lower Rausch Creek. This colliery was one of the most extensively mined collieries in the southern coal fields, second only to the celebrated Brookside Colliery.
The colliery was opened by a water level tunnel driven originally 516 ft. north to the buck mountain vein by Levi Miller & Co. in 1869 and the gang- ways were driven 1200 ft. east and west in 1870.
In 1873, they extended the tunnel 1161 ft. to the lykens valley no. 2 vein and drove gangways 3300 ft. east and west from the tunnel and operated the colliery until 1884 when the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. came in possession and began developing the colliery by sinking the lykens valley no. 1 slope 600 ft. below water level and later extended it a total of 2231 ft.
In 1893, the lykens valley no. 2 slope was sunk 1221 ft. and in 1897 a tunnel was driven 915 ft. connecting the no. 1 and no. 2 vein slopes.
In 1898, new & powerful hoisting engines were erected at the no. 1 vein slope and in 1899, the sinking of the water hoist shaft was started and completed Oct. 13, 1900 at a depth of 907 ft. This shaft replaced nine pumps.
A new breaker was completed on June 22, 1903 and the gangways were driven over two miles in length. An electric plant and electric haulage equipment was installed in 1905.
In 1906, a trial slope was sunk on the lykens valley no. 2 vein and was completed in 1908 at a depth of 1818 ft. and in 1907 an inside slope 682 ft. on the lykens valley no. 5 vein was sunk for hoisting purposes.
A second inside slope was sunk in 1914 from the lykens valley no. 2 vein and in 1915 the old kalmia slope was reopened and sunk 1084 ft.
The drainage of the colliery was accomplished by pumping the water from the lower levels to the bottom of the water shaft at the 6th level and then hoisted to the surface.
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. continued mining until Aug. 28, 1930 when the colliery was abandoned and allowed to fill with water.
The total shipments of coal from Lincoln Colliery were 14,427,696 tons.