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| Isabella, Luzerne Twp., Fayette Co.,
PA [A coal company patch town in Luzerne Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania.] [Isabella is located on the Monongahela River, south of Brownsville, Luzerne Twp., Fayette Co., PA.] See: Isabella No. 1 Mine & Coke Works, Isabella, Luzerne Twp., Fayette Co., PA Isabella No. 2 Mine & Coke Works, Isabella, Luzerne Twp., Fayette Co., PA
Isabella Connellsville Coke Company, Pittsburgh,
PA
Isabella No. 1 Mine & Coke Works
(ca.1907-1989), located on the Monongahela River, south of
Brownsville, Isabella, Luzerne Twp., Fayette Co., PA
Isabella No. 2 Mine & Coke Works (ca.1915-
? ), located on the Monongahela River, south of Brownsville,
Isabella, Luzerne Twp., Fayette Co., PA |
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| A portion of the Masontown, PA 15 min. U.S.G.S. quad map
ca.1902 showing the Isabella Mine & Coke Works located on the Monogahela
Railroad and the coal patch town of Isabella and the surrounding coke
works. (Map courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
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| The Isabella Mine & Coke Works, Isabella, Luzerne Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. |
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Robert Bush, a Black miner at the Isabella Mine, Fayette
Co., PA. Mr. Bush was 65 years old in ca.1946, and worked at the Isabella
Mine since Weirton Steel acquired the mine. (Photo courtesy of "Southwestern Pennsylvania," No. 4, 1984, a publication of the Myseum of Southwesterb Pennsylvania, California University, California, PA.) |
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| A group of Black miners at the Isabella Mine
ca.1946. (Photo courtesy of "Southwestern Pennsylvania," No. 4, 1984, a publication of the Museum of Southwestern Pennsylvania, California University, California, PA.) |
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| The ruins of the Isabella Mine tipple and barge loading equipment. |
| Explosion at the Isabella No. 1
Mine
March 18, 1917 An explosion of gas occurred Sunday, March 18, 1917, about 4:30 p.m. at the Isabella No. 1 Mine of the Hecla Coal & Coke Company, by which 4 persons were killed. The mine is situated about fifteen miles above [below] Brownsville, o the Moongahela River, in Fayette county. The report of the Committee of Inspectors appointed to investigate the cause of the explosion is printed herewith. |
| (from the "Annual Report of the Dept. of Mines of Pensylvania for 1917".) |
| Coal Miners
Memorial Isabella Mines & Coke Works, Isabella, Luzerne Twp., Fayette Co., PA |
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