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| Davidson Shaft Mine & Coke Works (Connellsville Shaft Mine & Coke Works) (ca.1856-1946 ? ), Located on Rt. T 700, east of PA Rt. SR1031, north of Connellsville, Davidson, Connellsville Twp., Fayette Co., PA Owners: (ca.1856-1860), Norton, Faber, and Miskimmer Company, (ca.1860-1868), Pittsburgh & Connellsville Gas, Coal & Coke Company (ca.1888-1946?), H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA |
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| A portion of the ca.1936 15 min. Connellsville PA quad
map showing the Coal Patch Town of Davidson. (Map courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
| DESCRIPTION: Davidson Coal Company Patch Town The coal company town of Davidson consists of about twenty houses built on deep lots along one street and a short intersecting side street. The extant buildings appear to be most of the housing that made up the portion of the town north of the Davidson Mine & Coke Works. All these houses are double houses, although a few on the side street have been altered and are now single-family dwellings. Two types of double-family houses remain in Davidson, reflecting different building periods. On the south side of the main street, two of the four buildings are double houses with board-and-batten siding. These houses have a single, central, brick chimney, a front shed-roofed porch, and a brick and rubble-stone foundation. While more substantially altered and aluminum sided, the houses on the intersecting road appear to be this same type. These buildings may date to ca.1868. All thirteen of the frame houses on the north side of the main street and two on the south side are four-bay houses, they rest on concrete-block foundations, have gable roofs that run parallel to the street, with two brick chimneys, and hipped-roof porches over each front door entry; with the exception of a few replacements, all windows are one-over-one-light double-hung sash with small pediments at the top. All of these houses have shed-roof porches, most of which are now enclosed, across the back. Small rectangular foundations of concrete at the back of these lots probably once supported the outhouses for the homes. |
The Davidson Union Supply Company Store, ca.1910, with the
store employees on the front porch. The Union Supply Company stores
supplied just about all the needs of the miners and their families.
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The former Union Supply Company Store in Davidson, ca.1990. |
| (Photo by Gray Fitzsimons. Courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) |
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| Coal Company Double-family dwelling located
on Main Street in Davidson ca.1990. (Photo by Gray Fitzsimons. Courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) |
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| Coal Company Double-family dwelling located
on Main Street in Davidson ca.1990. (Photo by Gray Fitzsimons. Courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) |
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| The rear of two Coal Company Patch Double-family
dwellings located on Main Street in Davidson ca.1990. (Photo by Gray Fitzsimons. Courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) |
| (History and description of Davidson, 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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