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Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, Shoaf, Fayette County, PA
Summary
See also HAER PA-283 for additional documentation. Includes drawings (sheets 5 & 6) & written data (pages 172 through 180).
Significance: The Shoaf coke works is the most intact beehive-oven coke plant in Fayette County, and possibly in southwestern Pennsylvania. In addition, several lorries and coke pulling machines survive at Shoaf.
Survey number: HAER PA-259
Building/structure dates: 1904- 1905 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1910 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1963 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
H. C. Frick Coke Company
U.S. Steel Corporation
Noble, Max
Manitowoc Company
Ricks Foundry
Noble, Helen
America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), sponsor
Madrid, transmitter
Davis, Christine E, historian
Fitzsimons, Gray, historian
Heald, Sarah H, historian
Queen, Rolla L, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Location
Shoaf, 39.92723, -79.65021
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
