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| Collier Mine & Coke Works
(ca.1907-1950's), Located on the Pennsylvania Railroad and Baltimore & Ohio Short Line Railroad Branch line, Collier, Georges Twp., Fayette Co., PA [Collier Coke Works contained 409 coke ovens ca.1910.] Owners: (ca.1907- ? ), H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA (ca.1919-1950's), H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA |
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| A portion of a ca.1935 Fayette County
Pennsylvania Masontown, PA 15 min. Quad. topographical map of the Collier
Area of Fayette County, showing the Collier Mine & Coke Works, plus the
settlement around the mine, as well as the Baltimore & Ohio Short Line
Railroad Branch line that served the Collier Mine & Coke
Works. (Map courtesy of the U.S.Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
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Collier Mine tipple and mine buildings ca.1940's. |
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| Miners ready to enter the Collier Mine
in Fayette County Miners with their lunch buckets and battery lamps waiting to entry the hoisting cage, at the tipple of the Collier Mine, to decend into the mine shaft to begin their shift, ca.1940. (Photo courtesy of the Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA) |
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| The crumbing remains of the Collier Coke
Works bee-hive coke ovens. (Photo by Chris Dellamea, Mining Historian, courtesy of Chris Dellamea, Mt. Pleasant, PA) |
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| The crumbing building remains of what was
the boiler house or machine shop at the Collier Mine. This
building is the only remaining mine building of the Collier
Mine. (Photo by Chris Dellamea, Mining Historian, courtesy of Chris Dellamea, Mt. Pleasant, PA) |
| "Coal Miners
Memorial, Colier Mine & Coke Works, Collier, Georges Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania" |
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