The Connellsville Coke and Iron Co. built the Monarch "patch" in 1886, also known as Leisenring No. 3. The plant consisted of a vertical shaft down into the Pittsburgh coal seam, and beehive coke ovens. H.C. Frick Coke Co. took over in 1890, and the mine was idled in 1926. During World War 2 the Leisenring No. 3 mine was reactivated, and the coal was transported many miles underground to the Monongahela River on the Colonial Beltline. The mine was abandoned once and for all in 1961.
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The Leisenring No. 3 tipple at Monarch is no longer there.
Circa 1960 image by John Enman, Pennsylvania State Archives Harrisburg
After Frick / U.S. Steel sold the company store, an early version of Pechin Market opened in it.
Jan. 2002 image by author
Some of the remaining company-built homes at Leisenring No. 3, now called Monarch.
May 2003 image by author
A company-built, two-family outhouse still extant in the Leisenring No. 3 patch. I guess if you were in one side, and your neighbor was having explosive diarreah on the other side, you could hear everything.
Jan. 2002 image by author
The house on the right has a more modern porch roof added by the owner.
Jan. 2002 image by author
There are also these smaller company-built cottages at Monarch.
