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Ricks Foundry, Miller Avenue off South Mount Vernon Street, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

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Ricks Foundry, Miller Avenue off South Mount Vernon Street, Uniontown, Fayette County, PA

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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

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Date

1940
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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
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