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| Continental No. 1, South Union Twp., Fayette
Co., PA [A coal company patch town in South Union Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania.] [Continental No. 1 (South Uniontown) located just south of Uniontown, Fayette Co., PA] See: Continental No. 1 Mine & Coke Works, Continental No. 1 [South Uniontown], South Union Twp., Fayette Co., PA
Continental No. 1 Mine & Coke Works
(ca.1898-1954),
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| Continental No. 1 Mine, ca.1909, Continental No. 1, South
Union Twp., Fayette Co., PA (Photo courtesy of George Trach, Rillton, and the Focus Magazine, of the Tribune-Review, Greensburg, PA.) |
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| Continental No. 1 Mine, early
ca.1940's H.C. Frick Coke Company's Continental No. 1 Mine Tipple, in the early 1940's. (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Managment Division, Uniontown, PA, & John K. Gates' Book, "The Beehive Coke Years.") |
| HISTORY: From the Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania, 1905: Continental No. 1 Mine. In good condition and fully up to the requirements of the law. Two coke drawing and conveying machines, manufactured by the Covington Manufacturing Company, have been installed at the plant. These machines are operated by electricity. The capacity of each machine per day of nine hours of operation is thirty-five coke ovens drawn and the coke conveyed into railroad cars. (Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania, Part II, Bituminous,1906:258, Harrisburg, PA)
Continental-New Comer. Mr. J. Blazinec reports that there
are five families and four individuals here. The first to come here were
L. Becan and F. Kostelec. All are coal miners and do not have houses. They
go to church in Uniontown, but do not have Slovene religious services. The
"Sveti Rok" Society #55 of the JSKJ, Kranjsko Slovenska Katoliska Jednota,
KSKJ, was established in 1905 by J. Krusnar, M. Kordic and A.
Levak.
From the Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania, 1917:
From the Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania,
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| Continental No. 1 Mine Coke
Works H.C. Frick Coke Company's Continental No. 1 Mine Coke Works. The coke ovens on the left are being drawn by a coke drawing machine, shown loading the railroad cars at the coke dock with coke. The coke ovens on the right are still being drawn by hand, as noted by the hand tools and wheelbarrows and the wooden planks used for trackage for the wheelbarrows to the railroad cars at the coke dock. The two electric larry's on top of the coke ovens, on the right, are charging the bee-hive coke ovens with coal through the charging hole in the top of the ovens, to begin the coking process over again. The Larry's are powered through the trolley pole, riding on the trolley wire on top of the ovens. (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Managment Division, Uniontown, PA, & John K. Gates' Book, "The Beehive Coke Years.") |
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| Continental No. 1 Baseball
field. H.C. Frick Coke Company's Continental No. 1 Baseball field during a ballgame with another of the H.C. Frick's Company towns. The Continental No. 1 Union Supply Company Store is in the background. The men and boys in the foreground are watching the game from atop the slate dump. (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Managment Division, Uniontown, PA) |
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| Union Supply Company Store Continental
No. 1 The company store employees at the Union Supply Company Store located at the H.C. Frick Coke Company's Continental No. 1 Mine. The company stores were not self service, but the shelves of the stores were filled with good quality merchandise, and plenty of willing employees to serve the residents of the mining towns. (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Managment Division, Uniontown, PA, & John K. Gates' Book, "The Beehive Coke Years.") |
| "Coal Miners
Memorial, Continental No. 1 Mine & Coke Works, Continental No. 1, South Union Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania" |
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