Jackson Mine & Coke Works, Jackson, Dawson, Lower Tyrone Twp., Fayette Co., Pennsylvania

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Jackson Mine & Coke Works,
Jackson, near Dawson,
Lower Tyrone Twp.,
Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

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

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Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian, Editor,
Ryan P. Washlaski, Technical Advisor,
Peter E. Starry, Jr. "The Old Miner."

Updated June 29, 2005

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Jackson Mine & Coke Works (ca.1864- ? ),
Located on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, along the Youghiogheny River, near Dawson, Jackson, Lower Tyrone Twp., Fayette Co., PA
[Jackson Coke Works contained 64 coke ovens ca.1889.]
Owners: (ca.1864- ? ), Jackson Mining Company,
(ca.1889- ? ), James Cochran & Sons Company, Dawson, PA

A portion of a map of the Connellsville Coke Region ca.1880, showing the located of the Jackson Mine & Coke Works, below Connellsville, on the Youghiogheny River.
(Delineated by Elizabeth Fairbanks, 1993, for the Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

From the Reports of the Inspectors of Mines, 1889:
Jackson Mine.
Located on the B. & O. Railroad, near Dawson, PA. Owners, James Cochran & Sons. Drift opening and furnace or fire-basket ventilation. This mine has been on fire for over a year, but the fire is now under control and the mine reopened by double entries driven in from the southwest end of the territory. At my last visit but a few men were working and the anemometer gace 4,410 cubic feet per minute. The fire is supposed to have originated from the coke ovens which are built in close proximity to the seam of coal.
(Inspectors of Mines,1889:362)

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