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| Royal Mines & Coke Works (Chestnut Ridge
Mine) (ca.1905- ? ), Located north of Route 40, about seven miles west of Uniontown, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, 5 miles southeast of Brownsville, north of US Rt. 40, and west of Franklin Lake, Chestnut Ridge, Royal, Redstone Twp., Fayette Co., PA [Royal Coke works contained 365 rectangular coke ovens ca.1916, located in the Klondike Region of the Connellsville Coke Region, Fayette Co., PA.] Owners: (ca.1905- ? ), W. J. Rainey Company, Uniontown, PA (ca.1916- ? ), W. J. Rainey Company, Uniontown, PA (ca.1920- ? ), W. J. Rainey Company, Uniontown, PA |
| DESCRIPTION: Chestnut Ridge, Coal Company Patch Town Chestnut Ridge, the coal company town built for the Royal Mine & Coke Works, has approximately ninty coal company built houses, which is probably the majority of its original coal company built housing. The houses are laid out along four parallel streets and one intersecting street south of the former Royal Mine & Coke Works. The bulk of the houses are semi-detached dwellings with their gable ends facing the streets. Of the standard wood-frame construction, they are four-bay on the ground level and two-bay above; they rest on coursed-stone foundations. The houses have shed or hipped-roof front porches, and their two interior brick chimneys are either on opposite sides of the roof ridge or piercing the ridge. A few of the dwellings in the southwest part of Chestnut Ridge have individual, one-bay shed-roof porches, over each front door. In the northern part of the town single-family houses line two different streets. Running north to south along the road that leads to the mine plant, there are a number of two-story wood frame dwellings probably constructed for management people. Built on coursed-ashlar foundations, these dwellings have intersecting gable roofs. The other street of single-family houses is to the west and has six one-story, three-room wood-frame workers' houses with their gable ends facing the street. |
| (History and description of Royal Mine & Coke Works, adapted from "Fayette County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, 1990," America's Industrial Heitage Project, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, U.S. Department of the Interior, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) |
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Royal Mine & Coke Works (Chestnuit Ridge Mine), Chestnut Ridge, Royal, Redstone Twp., Fayette Co., PA |
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