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| Phillips, Menallen Twp., Fayette Co.,
PA [A coal company patch town in Menallen Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania.] [Phillips is located along PA Rt. 51, two miles north of Uniontown, on the Redstone Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the West Penn Railways trolley line.]
Phillips Mine & Coke Works
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| A portion of a ca.1939 Uniontown, PA 15
min. Quad. topographical map of the Phillips area of Fayette County, showing
the Phillips Mine & Coke Works, plus the settlement around the mine,
as well as the P. V & C. Railroad Branch line that served the Phillips
Mine & Coke Works and the other mines & coke works. The West
Penn Railway line also served the Redstone Creek mining patches with trolley
service. (Map courtesy of the U.S.Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
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| Phillips Mine tipple, power house and mine buildings,
ca.June, 1941. (Photo courtesy of the H.C. Frick Coke Company Collection, the USX Resource Managment Division, Uniontown, PA, and the Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA.) |
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| Phillips Mine tipple, hoist house and powere house, with
the coal patch town of Phillips in the background, date unknown. (Photo courtesy of the Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA) |
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