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Town of Windber, Windber, Somerset County, PA
Summary
Significance: The Town of Windber was constructed as the regional headquarters of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company. The company, conscious of its image as a forward-looking modern corporation, sought to create a model mining community. Windber featured broad, tree-lined streets, a central park with a bandstand, detached houses for workers and a variety of privately owned commercial shops. Workers were housed in outlying parts of the town as well as in the satellite mining settlements, close to the coal mines.
Survey number: HAER PA-322
Building/structure dates: 1900 Initial Construction
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Date
1900
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Berwind-White Coal Mining Company
Madrid, transmitter
Location
Windber (Pa.), 40.23560, -78.83448
Source
Library of Congress
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