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| Phillips Coke Works
(ca.1907-1944), Located on Route 51, two miles north of Uniontown, on a Branch of the P.V.& C. Railroad, Phillips, Menallen Twp., Fayette Co., PA. [The Fayette County coke region's last bee-hive coke oven installation occurred in ca.1907 at the H.C. Frick Coke Company's Phillips Coke Plant.] [Phillips Coke Works contained 400 coke ovens ca.1910, ca.1919.] Owners: (ca.1907- ? ), H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scotdale, PA (ca.1910- ? ), H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA (ca.1919- ? ), H. C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA |
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| The model coke plant at the Phillips Coke
Works, Phillips, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The coke oven charging
tracks, from which the charging larries filled the ovens with coal were on
top of the banks of bee-hive coke ovens, with the railroad car tracks between
the banks of ovens for loading the finished coke. (Photo postcard courtesy Minerd-Miner-Minor Family Archives, Beaver, PA and of the Focus Magazine, Tribune-Review, Greensburg, PA.) |
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| The coke plant at the Phillips Coke Works,
Phillips, Fayette County, Pennsylvania ca.1918. The coke drawing machines
would pull the finished coke from the coke ovens and would screen the coke
as it was loaded into the waiting railroad hoppers cars on the loading
tracks. The lumps of coke are going into the hopper cars, while
the ashes are sifted into piles on the ground to be hauled to the ash dump.
The refuse piles at the coke works were known as "ash dumps," while
the ones at a coal mine were "slate dumps." (Photo postcard courtesy Kathy Johnson, Fayette Co., PA.) |
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| Phillips Coke Plant, the electric driven
coke oven charging larry approaching the coal tipple on the charging track,
to be loaded with the fine coal that would later be charged into the coke
ovens, 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 Coke Plant, Coke oven Levelers
at work. The man on the left is bricking up the bee-hive coke oven
door in preparation for the "Leveler" to level the charge of coal, 4 rows
of brick signify a 48 hour burn for the coke. The man on the right
has placed the leveling rod in the oven door and is leveling the coal in
the bee-hive coke oven to give an even burn. (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 Coke Plant with the banks of bee-hive
coke ovens burning at night, ca.1927. The coke ovens lit up the sky
at night. (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 Coke Plant, Phillips, Fayette Co.,
PA, The coke loading track on which the railroad cars were loaded with coke
as it was pulled from the coke ovens, in the coke yard at night, January
6, 1944. (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 Coke Plant, Phillips, Fayette Co.,
PA, The coke loading track in the coke yard at night, January 6, 1944.
(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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