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WILSON CREEK, PA

Wilson Creek was opened by the Somerset Coal Co. in the first few years of the 20th Century. This company raised its own food, probably to sell at their company store, on its own company farm. This farm probably also feed the mines' mules. Around 1910 Wilson Creek became Consolidation Coal Co. Mines No. 108 and 114. The final operator, from 1932 until 1960, was Fogle Coal Co.

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Remaining slate dump and, to the left, concrete tipple ruins.

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Large slate dumps abound at the site. My photos don't capture the size of them.

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Remains of the Wilson Creek coal mines.

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Probably remains of the machine shop or blacksmith shop.

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Another old mine shop building.

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Yet more mine ruins.

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Old stone and brick foundations at the old Wilson Creek tipple site.

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Slate dump on the left and tipple foundations on the right.

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There are only a few remaining houses from the Wilson Creek comapny-built patch town, such as this one.

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While studying old aerial photographs of the area it looked to me like most of the Wilson Creek mining town was demolished in the 1930s.