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| Continental No. 2 Mine & Coke Works
(ca.1901-? ), Located on the Coal Lick Run Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, north of PA Rt. SR 3009, about 2 miles southwest of Uniontown, Continental No. 2, South Union Twp., Fayette Co., PA. [Continental No. 2 Coke Works contained 326 coke ovens ca.1910.] Owners: (ca.1901-1903), Continental Coke Company, (ca.1903- ? ), H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA |
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| Continental No. 2 Patch House No. 111
Garden, ca.1912 1st. Prize, ca.1912, the Garden at House No. 111, Continental No. 2, of the H.C. Frick Coke Company's Continental No. 2 Mine. The Company water reservoir for the Continental No. 2 Coke Works and the railroad that served the mine in the background. (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Managment Division, Uniontown, PA, & John K. Gates', "The Beehive Coke Years.") |
| DESCRIPTION: Continental No. 2, Coal Company Patch Town: This description was written ca.1990 for the Industrial Heritage Survey and some of the details may have changed since then. Continental No. 2 has about fifty houses, which comprises approximately 85 percent of the original coal company housing. The town was laid out in two distinct sections along parallel streets, norhtwest of the Continental No. 2 Mine & Coke Works site. Although a number of single-family houses were constructed in Continental No. 2, none of them remain and only the two-family houses are extant. All of the remaining houses are gable-ended two-story, semi-detached dwellings, constructed of wood-frame and have two interior brick chimneys that pierce their gable roof line. In the western portion of the town about six of the houses are two bays upstairs; elsewhere in Continental No. 2, all houses are four-bay. Following no discernable pattern, front porches on these typical coal and coke company town dwellings are covered by either a shed or a hipped roof. The Continental No. 2 company store, a two-and-one-half story, seven-bay, gable-roofed wood frame building had burned ca.1990. Only its brick and stone foundation now remain, south of PA SR 3009, at the eastern end of town. |
| HISTORY: Continental No. 2, Coal Company Patch Town: Continental No. 2 is a coal company patch town that was built by the Continental Coke Company to house its employees who worked at the Continental No. 2 Mine & Coke Works, which was placed in operation ca.1901. Housing for the miners, coke workers and managers was built over several years following the opening of the Continental No. 2 Mine. The greatest number of houses were constructed in ca.1901, when the Continental Coke Company built fifty-seven double houses. The Continental No. 2 Company Store was also built at approximately this same time. The H. C. Firck Coke Company acquired the Continental No. 2 Mine & Coke Works in ca.1903.
From the Report of the Department of Mines of Pennsylvania,
1905: The H.C. Frick Coke Company added four double family houses in ca.1914.
From the Report of the Department of Mine of Pennsylvania,
1917: In ca.1918 H.C. Frick Coke Company added twelve single family dwellings. H. C. Frick Coke Company closed the Continenal No. 2 Mine & Coke Works in ca.1926. |
| (History and description of Continental No. 2, adapted from "Fayette County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, 1990," America's Industrial Heitage Project, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) |
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Memorial, Continental No. 2 Mine & Coke Works, Continental No. 2, South Union Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania" |
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