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Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Griffin No. 1 Coke Works, Along Cats Run, Southeast of Masontown Bourough (Nicholson Township), Masontown, Fayette County, PA

Griffin No. 1 Coke Works, Along Cats Run, Southeast of Masontown Bouro...

Significance: During peak production, Griffin No. 1 Coke Works operated one battery of double-block rectangular coke ovens. Sections of these ovens remain and are considered some of the best preserved rectangu... More

Griffin No. 1 Coke Works, Along Cats Run, Southeast of Masontown Bourough (Nicholson Township), Masontown, Fayette County, PA

Griffin No. 1 Coke Works, Along Cats Run, Southeast of Masontown Bouro...

Significance: During peak production, Griffin No. 1 Coke Works operated one battery of double-block rectangular coke ovens. Sections of these ovens remain and are considered some of the best preserved rectangu... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...

Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More

Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Significance: The town of Rock Run, primarily built to house and support the employees of the Rock Run furnace, is typical of the industrial towns scattered through the South at the turn of the century. While ... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, Shoaf, Fayette County, PA

Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, S...

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 Fayet... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Coke ovens. Ovens lined up against hill

Coke ovens. Ovens lined up against hill

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Town of Leisenring, Manager's House No. 2, Leisenring, Fayette County, PA

Town of Leisenring, Manager's House No. 2, Leisenring, Fayette County,...

Survey number: HAER PA-298-C Building/structure dates: before 1890 Initial Construction

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Significance: The site at Bretz is a fine example of a turn of the century coke processing facility. When these photos were taken, it was in danger of being shut down as a pollutant. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, ...

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 cok... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Iron ore and coke cars, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Iron ore and coke cars, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

H66428 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 6348. Public domain photograph of industrial revolution, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of indu... More

Town of Leisenring, Company Store, Leisenring, Fayette County, PA

Town of Leisenring, Company Store, Leisenring, Fayette County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-298-A Building/structure dates: before 1890 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1869 Initial Construction

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Significance: The site at Bretz is a fine example of a turn of the century coke processing facility. When these photos were taken, it was in danger of being shut down as a pollutant. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Significance: The site at Bretz is a fine example of a turn of the century coke processing facility. When these photos were taken, it was in danger of being shut down as a pollutant. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, ...

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 cok... More

Hecla No. 2 Mine & Coke Works, Between T571 & State Route 981, west of Trauger, Trauger, Westmoreland County, PA

Hecla No. 2 Mine & Coke Works, Between T571 & State Route 981, west of...

Significance: One of many coke works established in the Connellsville Coke Regions of Westmoreland and Fayette County, Hecla No. 2 mine was developed by Thomas Laird to supply coal for approximately 500 coke ov... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Kemble Coal & Iron Company, Riddlesburg Works, Riddlesburg, Bedford County, PA

Kemble Coal & Iron Company, Riddlesburg Works, Riddlesburg, Bedford Co...

Significance: Although this site contained an iron furnace as early as 1807, the remnants of the pig-iron producing operation date from the 1910s through the 1940s. This includes a (ca. 1906) building that lik... More

Town of Leisenring, Either side of State Route 1039 at intersection with State Route 1051 (Dunbar Township), Leisenring, Fayette County, PA

Town of Leisenring, Either side of State Route 1039 at intersection wi...

Significance: Typical southwestern Pennsylvania company town built to house miners and coke workers. Company store is one unique and is one of the best preserved of its type in the region. Survey number: HAER... More

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Town of Leisenring, Manager's House No. 1, Leisenring, Fayette County, PA

Town of Leisenring, Manager's House No. 1, Leisenring, Fayette County,...

Survey number: HAER PA-298-B Building/structure dates: before 1890 Initial Construction

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

Ricks Foundry, Miller Avenue off South Mount Vernon Street, Uniontown,...

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 Init... More

Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Significance: The town of Rock Run, primarily built to house and support the employees of the Rock Run furnace, is typical of the industrial towns scattered through the South at the turn of the century. While ... More

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, ...

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 cok... More

Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, Shoaf, Fayette County, PA

Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, S...

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 Fayet... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Griffin No. 1 Coke Works, Along Cats Run, Southeast of Masontown Bourough (Nicholson Township), Masontown, Fayette County, PA

Griffin No. 1 Coke Works, Along Cats Run, Southeast of Masontown Bouro...

Significance: During peak production, Griffin No. 1 Coke Works operated one battery of double-block rectangular coke ovens. Sections of these ovens remain and are considered some of the best preserved rectangu... More

Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Significance: The town of Rock Run, primarily built to house and support the employees of the Rock Run furnace, is typical of the industrial towns scattered through the South at the turn of the century. While ... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, PA

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, P...

Significance: The beehive coke ovens originally constructed at the site were among some 40,000 built in lower Westmoreland and Fayette counties between 1870 and 1920, in an area known as the Connellsville Coke ... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

[Penna. Pittsburg - Coke ovens: "coke ovens & their smoke consumers, on Monongahela River"]

[Penna. Pittsburg - Coke ovens: "coke ovens & their smoke consumers, o...

H66552 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo by Keystone. Copyrighted Oct. 13, 1905. Card number: 6519. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...

Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Significance: The site at Bretz is a fine example of a turn of the century coke processing facility. When these photos were taken, it was in danger of being shut down as a pollutant. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Significance: The site at Bretz is a fine example of a turn of the century coke processing facility. When these photos were taken, it was in danger of being shut down as a pollutant. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Lucernemines Coke Works, 0.2 mile East of Lucerne, Lucerne Mines, Indiana County, PA

Lucernemines Coke Works, 0.2 mile East of Lucerne, Lucerne Mines, Indi...

Significance: The Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company ovens at Lucerne is the most intact coke-processing complex of the historic Indiana County coal industry. Survey number: HAER PA-264 Building/structure da... More

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, ...

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 cok... More

Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, Shoaf, Fayette County, PA

Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, S...

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 Fayet... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Colonial Mines Bathhouse, Smock, Fayette County, PA

Colonial Mines Bathhouse, Smock, Fayette County, PA

Significance: Constructed by the H.C. Frick Coke Company during the late 1910s expansion of the company's coal properties in the Connellsville and Klondike districts, this building originally served as a bath a... More

Star Supply Company, Church Street & Old State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA

Star Supply Company, Church Street & Old State Route 51, Star Junction...

See also HAER PA-320 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Survey number: HAER PA-321 Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...

Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...

Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...

Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...

Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, PA

Town of Star Junction, State Route 51, Star Junction, Fayette County, ...

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 cok... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Carnegie Free Library, 301 South Pittsburgh Street, Connellsville, Fay...

Significance: Connellsville was the regional center of the world famous Connellsville coking fields that supplied the Pittsburgh steel industry during its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Andrew ... More

Lucernemines Coke Works, Coke Ovens, 0.5 mile East of Lucerne, adjacent, Lucerne Mines, Indiana County, PA

Lucernemines Coke Works, Coke Ovens, 0.5 mile East of Lucerne, adjacen...

Significance: The Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company ovens at Lucerne is the most intact coke-processing complex of the historic Indiana County coal industry. Survey number: HAER PA-264-A Building/structure ... More

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

Connellsville Coal & Coke Region, Connellsville, Fayette County, PA

See also HAER PA-259 for related documentation. Includes photographs & written data. Significance: Considered among the world's richest mineral deposits, the Pittsburgh seam of coal underlying portions of Fayet... More

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Elkins Coal & Coke Company, Bretz Ovens, Bretz, Preston County, WV

Significance: The site at Bretz is a fine example of a turn of the century coke processing facility. When these photos were taken, it was in danger of being shut down as a pollutant. Unprocessed Field note ma... More

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, PA

Alverton Coke Works, State Route 981, Alverton, Westmoreland County, P...

Significance: The beehive coke ovens originally constructed at the site were among some 40,000 built in lower Westmoreland and Fayette counties between 1870 and 1920, in an area known as the Connellsville Coke ... More

Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, Shoaf, Fayette County, PA

Shoaf Mine & Coke Works, East side of Shoaf, off Township Route 472, S...

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 Fayet... More

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Westmoreland County, PA

Pittsburgh Steel Company, Monessen Works, Donner Avenue, Monessen, Wes...

Significance: One of several large steel making complexes in the Monongahela River Valley in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Steel Company's Monessen Works grew from a rod and wire mill to a fully int... More

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road & Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA

Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersecti...

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Town of Leisenring, Manager's House No. 1, Leisenring, Fayette County, PA

Town of Leisenring, Manager's House No. 1, Leisenring, Fayette County,...

Survey number: HAER PA-298-B Building/structure dates: before 1890 Initial Construction

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

Ricks Foundry, Miller Avenue off South Mount Vernon Street, Uniontown,...

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 Init... More

Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Rock Run Furnace & Town, County Road 12, Rock Run, Cherokee County, AL

Significance: The town of Rock Run, primarily built to house and support the employees of the Rock Run furnace, is typical of the industrial towns scattered through the South at the turn of the century. While ... More

Lucernemines Coke Works, Coke Ovens, 0.5 mile East of Lucerne, adjacent, Lucerne Mines, Indiana County, PA

Lucernemines Coke Works, Coke Ovens, 0.5 mile East of Lucerne, adjacen...

Significance: The Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Company ovens at Lucerne is the most intact coke-processing complex of the historic Indiana County coal industry. Survey number: HAER PA-264-A Building/structure ... More

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