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CRUCIBLE, PA
The prep plant and barge loadout at Crucible, Pa as it looked in its heyday.
Overall view of the ruins of the Crucible coal processing plant that existed until a few years ago.
Tipple ruins at Crucible, Pa. had no provisions for loading trains, so they
must have shipped all their coal by barge on the river to the Crucible Steel Co. coke ovens and steel mill at Midland, Pa.
The original Crucible tipple and headframe.
This part of the Crucible tipple was not concrete, and appears to have
been steel-framed. That looks like typical steel sheeting on the sides, but is actually asbestos siding.
Remains of a Dorr thickener at the Crucible prep plant ruins.
Crucible was operated by Crucible Coal Co., a subsidiary of Crucible Steel Co.
This old boiler house was probably built when the mine opened. Some sources have stated that the mine opened in
1911, but it wasn't until 1913 that Uniontown coal property speculator J.V. Thompson sold the 2,000 acres of coal lands to the Crucible Steel. Co.
The Crucible boiler house as it looked when the mine was active.
Another Crucible mine building, on the banks of the Monongahela River, this one is probably a bathhouse or machine shop. These
interesting mine ruins still existed when I took this
photo, but all that is there now is a boring grassy field.
Large gob piles across the Monongahela River from the Crucible coal processing complex. The mine was closed in the early 1960's.
The Crucible patch is up on the hill above the tipple site. Over 1300 people lived here in the late 1940's.
Larger 2-family company housing at Crucible, Pa.
A smaller type of one family homes that the company built for its workers.
Row of miners' cottages at Crucible. At least part of this coal company town was
constructed by the Fort Pitt Bridge Company.
The old United Mine Workers union hall at Crucible.
Image courtesy of the John W. Barriger collection
Image courtesy of Mather Recovery Systems LLC
Aug. 2002 image by author
Image courtesy Coal and Coke Heritage Center, Penn State Fayette
Circa 1930 "Keystone Coal Mining Catalog" image
Aug. 2002 image by author
Aug. 2002 image by author
Aug. 2002 image by author
Image courtesy Coal and Coke Heritage Center, Penn State Fayette
Aug. 2002 image by author
Aug. 2002 image by author
Aug. 2002 image by author
Aug. 2002 image by author
Aug. 2002 image by author
Circa 1930 "Keystone Coal Mining Catalog" image
Aug. 2002 image by author