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| Uniondale Mine & Coke Works
(ca.1869-1900), A slope opening mine, located on the Fayette Branch of the Pittsburg & Connellsville Railroad, later it was the Pennsylvania South West Railroad, north west of Dunbar, Uniondale, Watt's Station, Fayette Co., PA [Uniondale Coke Works contained sixty bee-hive coke ovens ca.1875.] Owners: (ca.1869 - ? ), Watt, Taylor & Company, Dunbar, PA (ca. ? ), Watt, Byer & Company, Dunbar, PA (ca.1875- ? ), W. T. Watt & Company, Dunbar, PA (ca.1878- ? ), Reid Brothers Company, Dunbar, PA (ca.1889- ? ), J. M. Reid & Company, Dunbar, PA (ca.1893- ? ), Cambria Iron Company, Johnstown, PA (ca.1894- ? ), Reid Bros. Company, Dunbar, PA |
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| Uniontown 1903, 15min Quad Map, showing the location of
the Uniondale Mine & Coke Works, at Uniondale, Dunbar Twp., Fayette
Co., PA. (Map courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey, Washington D.C.) |
| March 8, 1886, an explosion occurred in the Uniondale Mine that killed 6 miners. |
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Memorial Uniondale Mine & Coke Works, Uniondale, Dunbar Twp., Fayette Co., PA |
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