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REITZ NO. 2, PA

Although Berwind-White Coal Co. didn't found Reitz Coal Co., they had abosrbed it by the time Reitz No. 2 was built in 1916. Eventually Reitz No. 3 through 5 were opened in the Central City area as well. Reitz No. 2 was in the Lower Kittanning seam of coal.


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This was once an electric substation for the Reitz No. 2 coal mine.


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Looking down into the former coal patch town of Reitz No. 2. In the background is the neighboring patch town of Cairnbrook.


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The house on the right appears to still be sporting its coal company-installed Insulbrick siding.


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This may have been a row of managment houses.


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Some of these homes have been modified to such a degree that one would be hard pressed to realize they were once coal company homes.


Sources:

Summers, Patrica, editor. Somerset County, Pennsylvania; An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. 1994.



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