Ricks Foundry, Miller Avenue off South Mount Vernon Street, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA
Summary
Significance: Ricks manufactured the Covington coke puller, the most widely-used mechanical coke-drawing machine in the Connellsville Region.
Survey number: HAER PA-366
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1928 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1940 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1947 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1940
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Ricks, Thomas
Evans Mold & Machine Company
Covington Machine Company
Allegheny Ballistics Company
America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), sponsor
Madrid, transmitter
Fitzsimons, Gray, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Location
Uniontown, 39.89675, -79.73694
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html