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Lick Run is a 6.7-mile-long (10.8 km) [1] urban stream in southern Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a tributary of Peters Creek. [2] The former Lick Run coal mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company had its mouth near the stream, along the B&O Railroad line.
Well preserved example of a turn-of-the-20th Century coal mining community. 4: Brown-Moore Blacksmith Shop: Brown-Moore Blacksmith Shop: May 7, 1992 : 0.1 miles (0.16 km) west of Pennsylvania Route 4020: Luzerne Township
In 1910, the newly created U.S. Bureau of Mines leased a 38-acre tract of land from the Pittsburgh Coal Company and opened the Experimental Mine. One of the early findings in the Experimental Mine demonstrated that coal dust by itself was capable of propagating an explosion even in the absence of any methane gas. This demonstration was contrary ...
The Pittsburgh Coalfield (Pittsburgh Coal Region) is the largest of the Western Pennsylvania coalfields. It includes all or part of Allegheny, Fayette, Greene, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties in Pennsylvania. Coal has been mined in Pittsburgh since the 18th century. U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel owned Karen, Maple Creek, and Ellsworth ...
Other mines at various times were operated by the Birmingham Coal Company, H.G. Burghman, Jones & Laughlin, and the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is the namesake of the Pittsburgh and Beck's Run Railroad (1877–1880), which ran from the Smithfield Street Bridge to the Jones and Laughlin Iron Works , and ...
In 1942, Office of War Information photographer John Collier visited the Montour No. 4 Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company in Pennsylvania. Gritty 1940s photos record the dark and dangerous lives ...
The company operated the Coal Hill Coal Railroad, a 1.5-mile (2.4 km), 3 ft 4 in (1,016 mm) narrow gauge railroad until 1871, when it was sold to the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon Railroad, which lengthened the line. [5] The company assumed control of the Montour Railroad in 1901. Coal miner Louis Shafer, Pittsburgh Coal Company (1946).
Tour-Ed Mine and Museum: Tarentum: Allegheny: Pittsburgh Metro Area: Industry - Coal: website, coal mine and recreated home of a typical coal miner in the 1850s, general store items, tools and antiques Toy Soldier Museum: Cresco: Monroe: Northeastern Pennsylvania: Toy: website, toy soldier displays, battle dioramas, civilian scenes, regimental ...