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MISC. BLACK LICK / TWO LICK FIELD
Abandoned coal tipple in eastern Indiana County which is said to be from the Thompson No. 1 mine.
Somebody's stash of underground coal mine cars near Josephine, Pa.
Here are a few of the surviving miners' homes at Starford, PA. The mines at Starford were operated by Greenwich Coal & Coke Company and, later, by Barnes and Tucker and James Coal Company.
These foundations are at Wehrum, PA, which was a coal patch town built by the Lackawanna Coal & Coke Company in 1901. Although there were 250
company-built houses here once, almost nothing remains of Wehrum. These ruins are red brick with cut stone, and the two iron pieces appear to have been bearing support stands, perhaps for a hoist or fan.
Sam emailed in this photo of what he called "a dynamite shed in Wehrum."
On the mountain above Wehrum is the overgrown and forgotten
Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Cemetery for the immigrants that came to this coalfield.
A headstone in the cemetery near Wehrum, Pa. The text appears to be Russian or Croatian or something. The graves in this cemetery date from the first three decades of the 20th Century, and
there is no evidence that anyone has been buried there after 1930.
These are the remains of the Lackawanna No. 3 tipple in Buffington Township, Indiana County. The Lackawanna Coal & Coke Co. constructed the tipple with the opening
of the Lackawanna No. 3 coal mine in 1899. By the time the mine closed in 1929, Bethleham (Steel) Mining was the owner.
Silos left over from the Oneida Coal Company mine.
Remains of a rail siding to an old coal mine along the Ghost Town Trail. This is a biking / hiking trail that used to be the grade for the Ebensburg and Blacklick Railroad.
Coal company houses at Tide, Pa. that have gone extensive remodeling. Tide Coal Mining Co., which was a subsidiary of Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal & Iron Co., opened
the Tide mine circa 1913. The mine closed in 1954, and the only thing remaining besides the houses is a large slate dump.
21st Century coal loading facility near Blairsville.
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