MOWEEN, PA
Moween is in Loyalhanna Twp. in northern Westmoreland County. The Mooween Mine was opened by the Keystone Coal Co. in 1906, and closed circa 1950. The Upper Freeport seam Moween underground coal mine was
in Westmoreland County, but a bridge led to the tipple on the Indiana County side of the Conemaugh River, probably because that's where the railroad was located (Conemaugh Divsion of Pennsylvania Railroad). There were slate dumps on both sides of the river.
Front-gabled coal company houses.
I photographed this abandoned "patch" house because the original
architecture is apparent.
This was once the superintendent's house. It overlooked the
mine and tipple site in the Conemaugh Valley. Note that the bottom floor is stone and the upper floor is
wood-framed.
The former Moween company store is now a private residence.
The tipple is gone, but the piers from the bridge bringing the coal
across the river are still there. Another tipple was located only a few hundred yards away. This was from
the Watson Mine at White, Pa.
Sources:
http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com by Ray Washlaski. Accessed here through the Wayback Machine.
http://coalandcoke.blogspot.com by Michael Mance.
Fitzsimons, Gray, editor. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. National Park Service, 1994.
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(April 2015 image by Mike Mance)
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