The Madison Gas Coal Company was the first concern to mine coal at Darragh in 1890. After 1902, the Madison mine became the property of Keystone Coal and Coke, which was a conglomerate of
several area coal companies.
Mar. 2003 image by author
This wooden tipple at Darragh, PA was on the property of the Cambruzzi Coal Co.Mar. 2003 image by author
The other side of the tipple at Darragh.Mar. 2003 image by author
Vintage wooden underground coal cars at the Madison Mine site at Darragh.Mar. 2003 image by author
This small structure was across the road. It may have been a house coal tipple.Mar. 2003 image by author
Most of the patch housing at Darragh has been drastically altered and modernized, turning it into a suburb of Irwin and Jeanette. The slate dump is in the background. Google Street View image
I wonder if this was the Darragh company store at one time?Google Street View image
Former Madison Mine office.Bing maps image
In this aerial image the mine site is on the left, in the middle is the brick power house that I forgot to photograph back in 2003, and the coal
company housing is on the right.
Sources:
Fitzsimons, Gray, editor. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. National Park Service, 1994.
Ray, Wm. Stanley. Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania. 1902.
