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The boom of investment in the coal industry and predicted large-scale production of anthracite coal shifted the mentality of the Pennsylvania state government, and the legislature dramatically increased the number and quality of charters it granted to mining companies. [28]
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A Welsh miner in a coal mine in Pennsylvania's Coal Region in 1910. By the 18th century, the Susquehannock Native American tribe that had inhabited the region was reduced 90 percent [2] in three years of a plague of diseases and possibly war, [2] opening up the Susquehanna Valley and all of Pennsylvania to European settlers.
About 1806, Abijah Smith came to Plymouth from Derby, Connecticut, intending to mine, ship, and sell coal.Smith and Lewis Hepburn, his business partner, bought a 75-acre plot (Lots 45 and 46 on the Plymouth Township Warranty Map) on the east side of Coal Creek, and in the fall of 1807, Smith floated an ark down the Susquehanna River loaded with about fifty tons of anthracite coal, shipping it ...
The heyday of the Connellsville Coalfield was from the 1880s to the 1920s. At least 60 coal towns, known as "coal patches", were constructed in the field. H.C. Frick Coal and Coke - a subsidiary of U.S. Steel after 1903 - was the major player. Other notable industrialists included Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, W. J. Rainey, and Philip Cochran.
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They include the extractive and archaeological remains of Colonial Mines No. 1 and 2 and related coke operations, 109 company built dwellings (92 workers' houses and 17 managers' houses), the Redstone Creek bridge, and the Smock War Monument. Other buildings are three schools, the company store, three churches, and a movie theater.
An underground transportation system connecting the Ormsby mine with other local coal mines was begun in 1867. [4] Like many mine railroads in the Pittsburgh area, this was a 3 ft 4 in (1,016 mm) narrow gauge line. [5] After the coal was removed, it was transported underground from the South Hills to industries along the Monongahela river.