Dexter Mines & Coke Works, Stauffer, Dexter, Upper Tyron Twp., Fayette Co., PA

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Dexter Mines & Coke Works,
Dexter, Stauffer,
Upper Tyron Twp.,
Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

A Tribute to the Coal Miners that mined the Bituminous Coal seams of the Dexter Mines, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

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Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian, Editor,
Ryan P. Washlaski, Technical Editor,

Updated Aug. 30, 2009

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Dexter Mines & Coke Works (ca.1875- ? ),
Located on the Mt. Pleasant Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, on Jacobs Creek, near West Overton, Stauffer, Dexter, Upper Tyron Twp., Fayette Co., PA
[Dexter coke works contained 40 coke ovens ca.1889.]
Owners: (ca.1875- ? ), J. B. Stauffer, Scottdale, PA
(ca.1890's- ? ), J. B. Stauffer Coke Company, Scottdale, PA
(ca.1905- ? ), J. B. Stauffer & Company, Scottdale, PA
(ca.1914- ? ), Connellsville Coke Company, Scottdale, PA

Dexter No. 2 Mine (ca.1920- ? ),
Located on the Mt. Pleasant Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near Stauffer, Dexter, Upper Tyron Twp., Fayette Co., PA
[Dexter No. 2 Mine was a new mine in ca.1920.]
Owners: (ca.1920- ? ), Connellsville Coke Company, Scottdale, PA

A portion of the ca.1902 Connellsville PA 15min. quad. map showing the area that the Dexter Mine & Coke Works was located in Upper Tyron Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
(Map courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.)

Ad from "The Weekly Courier", Connellsville, PA, May, 1914 for the Dexter Mines & Coke Works.
(Courtesy of The Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University, Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA)

DESCRIPTION:

THE DEXTER MINES & COKE WORKS
The Dexter Mines and Coke-Works, owned and operated by J. R. Stauffer & Co., are located on the Stauffer farm, and are the next coke-works above the “Fountain,” on the Mount Pleasant Railroad. The property connected with the works embraces one hundred acres, of which about thirty acres has been exhausted, leaving about seventy acres of coal untouched. The works were built in 1878 by the brothers Stauffer. This coal is taken out by drifting. Forty ovens are in operation here, producing sixty-five tons of coke daily. They are well equipped, having a store-house twenty by thirty-six feet in dimensions, two tanks, the necessary sidings, and eight dwelling-houses for operatives. The works have $25,000 invested in them, exclusive of the land, for which no outlay was required, as it be-longed to the Stauffer homestead property. A view of the Dexter Coke-Works, as also of the flouring-mills of J. R. & A. Stauffer, is given herewith.
(Description of the Dexter Mine & Coke Works adapted from "History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men." by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882. Also available from "Historic Pittsburgh." Digital Research Library, University of Pittsburgh. September 19, 2000.)

Dexter Mine Tipple, ca.1905.
(Photo courtesy of Tom Ridenour and The Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University, Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA)

"Coal Miners Memorial, Dexter Mines & Coke Works,
Stauffer, Dexter, Upper Tyron Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania"

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