LUXOR, PENNSYLVANIA (JAMISON NO. 1)

May 2003 image by author Jamison Coal and Coke Company built its No. 1 mine at Luxor, Pa., in the 1890s. Here are the remains of the coal washing plant that the company built in 1907.
May 2003 image by author Remaining beehive coke ovens at Luxor that were part of the Jamison No. 1 operation.
May 2003 image by author In 1940, the Sekora Coal Company acquired the coal mine at Luxor. After this, the company relocated the tipple shown here from the nearby Crow's Nest mine.
May 2003 image by author Another view of the tipple at Luxor.
Sep. 2003 image by author These still-inhabited company-built homes are in the Luxor "patch town."
Sep. 2003 image by author The "red dog" is evidence that the slate dump at Luxor was once on fire.
May 2003 image by author Coal mining at Luxor ended in 1972.
Sep. 2003 image by author
Image courtesy of the Tribune-Review, Greensburg, Pa. Unfortunately, Sekora Coal Co. demolished the Luxor tipple in February 2004, bringing down one of the last coal tipples in Westmoreland County.

The following pictures were emailed in by Sam Baker. Sam explored the site of the Luxor coal mine in the summer of 2010.

The portal to the coal mine.
Sam says this is "a support for a trestle that ran from where the recent tipple stood to the mine portal."
Sam describes this as "a powder or caps magazine."

The following pictures were emailed in by Chance Peddler. These photos were taken in 2017.

Chance describes this as the "old beehive coke oven location."
Brick mine portal.
Side view of mine portal.
Looking inside the portal.
Ruins of the coal washing plant.
Underneath the coal washing plant.
Coal washing plant "cellar."
Coal washing plant again.
And again.