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| Oliver No. 1 Mine & Coke
Works (ca.1890-1960's), Located just north of Uniontown, starting at the edge of the city, on the P.V.& C. Railroad, north of PA Rt. 119 and east of PA Rt.51, north of Uniontown, east of Oliver, North Union Twp., Fayette Co., PA. [Oliver No. 1 Coke Works contained 328 coke ovens ca.1905, ca.1910 & ca.1919.] Owners: (ca.1890- ? ), Oliver Coke & Furnace Company, Uniontown, PA (ca.1894- ? ), Oliver Coke & Furnace Company, Uniontown, PA (ca.1898- ? ), Oliver & Snyder Steel Company, Uniontown, PA (ca.1905- ? ), Oliver & Snyder Steel Company, Oliver, PA (ca.1906- ? ), Oliver & Snyder Steel Company, Oliver, PA (ca.1910- ? ), Oliver & Snyder Steel Company, Oliver, PA
Oliver No. 2 Mine & Coke
Works (ca.1890- ? ),
Oliver No. 3 Mine & Coke Works (Thaw Mine)
(ca.1903-1944),
Oliver No. 4 Mine & Coke Works
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| A portion of a ca.1900 15 min. Pennsylvania
Fayette County Uniontown Quad. topographical map of the Oliver Area of Fayette
County, showing the Oliver Mines & Coke Works, plus the settlement around
the mines, as well as the Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad & the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad that served the Oliver Mines & Coke Works. (Map courtesy of the U.S.Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
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| Oliver No. 2 Mine Tipple and Engine House before
ca.1900. The large smoke stack next to the tipple was from the ventilating furnace that supplied the air flow in the mine. (Photo courtesy of the Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA.) from the Pennsylvania Department of Mines Report for 1906: Oliver and Snyder Steel Company. Oliver No. 1 Mine - In good condition
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| Moonshiner Joe Segoskey The first liquor parole in the county was revoked today following the arrest of Joe Segoskey of Oliver No. 2 when a still was found in operation in the cellar of his home. The man had been sentenced to pay a fine of $200 and serve seven months in the workhouse but was given a year and a half parole on a charge of violating the liquor law. (The Daily courier, Tuesday May 23, 1922.) |
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| A dinky engine pulls a string of coal cars over one of
the trestles that connected the Oliver Coal & Coke plants in the early
1900. (Photo courtesy John K. Gates' book, "In Other Years, Uniontown and Southern Fayette County.") |
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| The Fayette Supply Company, coal company store at the
Oliver Works ca.early 1900. (Photo courtesy John K. Gates' book, "In Other Years, Uniontown and Southern Fayette County.") |
| "Coal Miners
Memorial, Oliver Mines & Coke Works, Oliver, North Union Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania" |
| Support the Coal & Coke Heritage
Center, a non-profit research center and museum. Want to know more about the women who lived in the coal patch towns? You need this book. One of the few studies done on the women of the coal & coke era. Common lives of Uncommon Strength: The Women of the Coal & Coke Era of Southwestern Pennsylvania 1880-1970 Complied, written and edited by: Evelyn A. Hovanec, PhD 227 pages. Voices of the women tell unique stores of the coal and coke era, plus vintage photographs, documents, maps, and newspaper articles. Hardcover $35.00 Soft cover $25.00 Add $5.00 shipping / handling. Send Check or money order to: Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus P.O. Box 519, Uniontown, PA 15401 |
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