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| Mount Sterling Mine & Coke
Works (ca.1907- ? ), Located on the Monongahela Railroad and the Monongahela River, just southwest of Masontown, at Mt. Sterling, German Twp., Fayette Co., PA Owners: (ca.1907- ? ), Consolidated Connellsville Coke Company, Uniontown, PA (ca. ? ), Consolidated Coke Company, |
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| A portion of the 15min. Masontown, PA quad map showing
Mt. Sterling just west of Masontown, PA (Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
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| Mount Sterling Mine & Coke Works, Mt.
Sterling, Nicholson Township, Fayette County, contained 310 bee-hive coke
ovens and produced 1,500 tons of coke and coal daily. The coal company
patch town of Mt. Sterling is in the foreground, below the coke ovens, on
the banks of the Monongahela River. (Photo courtesy of the P.H.M.C., photographic Collections MG21B, Harrisburg, PA.) |
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| Mount Sterling Mine & Coke Works, Mt.
Sterling, German Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, ca.1914. (Photo courtesy of "The Weekly Courier," Connellsville, PA, May, 1914.) |
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Ad for the Consolidated Connellsville Coke Company and
the Mt. Sterling Coke Works, and Standard Connellsville Coke for Clast Furnaces
and Foundries, as it ran in "The Weekly Courier," May, 1914. (Photo courtesy of "The Weekly Courier," Connellsville, PA, May, 1914.) |
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Mt. Sterling Tipple ca.1937. (Photo courtesy of R. W.) |
| Coal Miners
Memorial Mount Sterling Mine & Coke Works, Mt. Sterling, German Twp., Fayette Co.,PA |
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