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Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA
Summary
See also HAER PA-321 for related documentation. Includes photographs.
Significance: Most of the houses in Star Junction were built by the Washington Coal & Coke Company in the 1890s. The company operated a coke works and coal mine at Star Junction, which contained nearly 700 inhabitants by 1900. Many of the company-built houses from the 1890s and early 1900s survive.
Survey number: HAER PA-320
Building/structure dates: after. 1890- before. 1899 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: after. 1900- before. 1909 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1918 Subsequent Work
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Date
1900
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Washington Coal & Coke Company
Cochran, James
Cochran, Philip Galley
Cochran, Mark Mordecai
Cochran, Sarah Moore
H. C. Frick Coke Company
U.S. Steel Corporation
Sugarman, Mark
Junction House Hotel
Hoagland, Alison K, project manager
America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), sponsor
Madrid, transmitter
Mulrooney, Margaret M, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Location
Star Junction, 40.06355, -79.76426
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
