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JAMISON NO. 20
This patch town was built circa 1917 to house the workers of Jamison Coal and Coke's No. 20 mine near Pleasant Unity, Pa.
Some of those same Jamsion No. 20 company houses in the 21st Century.
These shop buildings are remaining from the Jamsion 20 mine. There were no coke ovens at this site.
This building has been identified as the coal mine office, though I also saw it labeled on an old mine map as a hoist house. Between 200 and 300
miners worked at Jamsion No. 20 mine during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. The mine closed in the 1960s.
An old drag line bucket laying around the place. This is private property so I took these pictures while walking along Route 981.
Brass mine check tags from Jamison 20. The miners would hang one of these tags on the end of a coal car that they had just loaded. Then an underground locomotive
pulled a "trip" of these cars to the weighman at the tipple. The tag identified who loaded the car, and thus who got paid for it.
Sources:
Edited by Raymond A. Washlaski, Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania.
Fitzsimons, Gray, editor. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. National Park Service, 1994.
Image from a 1927 Keystone Coal Catalog
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Image courtesy of Beth