ROSEYTOWN, PA (HEMPFIELD MINE)
Hempfield Coal Co. opened the Roseytown mines (Hempfield No. 1 and No. 2) in the late 1800s. By 1907 Keystone Coal and Coke Co. had purchased
Roseytown mines and installed a ten ton Jeffrey mine locomotive. Later, the nearby Crows Nest mine and Roseytown mine were joined, and miners of the Crows Nest mine entered through the Roseytown portal.
The entrance to Roseytown from the south.
Coal company patch houses.
About the only remaining structure from the Hempfield mine is this brick building, which used to be the mine's lamp house.
Sign on the former lamp house.
Sources:
Edited by Raymond A. Washlaski, Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania.
Report of the Department of Mines, Part II Bituminous, 1907, accessed through coalmininghistorypa.org.
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