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By the turn of the century, the coal mines slowly started to be used up and closed down. The last family left town in 1947; by then the town itself was abandoned. By the 1960s all the buildings were gone and there was little to mark the site, other than Moonville Cemetery, the tunnel, and foundation stones found near the tracks.
San Toy is a ghost town in southeastern Bearfield Township, Ohio, Perry County, Ohio, United States. A flourishing community in the early 20th century, it was a coal town created by the Sunday Creek Coal Company.
Pages in category "Coal towns in Ohio" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Kings Mine, Ohio; Kipling, Ohio; M. Millfield, Ohio; O.
Walhonding was a former mining community and home to two mine shafts known as walhonding mine no. 1 and walhonding mine no.2. Today little remains reflecting this history besides a large slate pile and a few abandoned mining homes. The roads in this area reflect the names of former residents many of which were of Czech and Slovak ancestry.
King’s Station was a coal mining town that began in the late 1850s when the railroad came through the area. It was located East of Moonville and Ingham and west of Mineral. The town was abandoned in the early 1900s when the area mines shut down, but there are some newer houses scattered around the area.
The Century Mine was an underground [1] coal mine in Belmont County, Ohio owned by American Energy Corporation, a subsidiary of Murray Energy. [2] [3] It was the last remaining mine in the county [4] before it was shut down in 2022. [2] [5] The mine produced around 5 million tons of coal per year. [6]
Map of Mineral, Ohio. Mineral is an unincorporated community in Athens County, Ohio, United States. [1] Centered on State Route 356, it was established as a coal mining community. It is located on Mud Lick Run, which flows into nearby Hewitt Fork, a tributary of Raccoon Creek. The B&O Railroad once ran through the community, but was abandoned ...
The town used to be a stop on the New York Central Railroad, but the stop was abandoned in the early 1970s. [3] View of parts of Diamond from I-76. A post office called Diamond has been in operation since 1880. [4] Diamond was originally a coal mining community, and the Black Diamond Coal Company operated there. [5]