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| York Run Mine & Coke Works
(ca.1904- 1928), Located just north west of Fairchance, on the York Run - Collier branch line off the Smithfield & Masontown Branch of the B. & O. Railroad, York Run, Georges Twp., Fayette Co., PA. [York Run Coke Works contained 500 coke ovens ca.1910.] [The York Run Mine & Coke Works complex has totally disappeared, the houses have been torn down and the area stripped mined ca.1952.] Owners: (ca.1904-1928), H.C. Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, PA Company Store: Union Supply Company Store No. 50 |
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| A portion of a ca.1935 Pennsylvania Fayette
County Masontown 15 min. Quad. topographical map of the York Run Area of
Fayette County, showing the York Run Mine & Coke Works, plus the settlement
around the mine, as well as the Baltimore & Ohio Short Line Railroad
Branch line that served the York Run Mine & Coke Works and the Collier
Mine & Coke Works. (Map courtesy of the U.S.Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
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The Tipple of the York Run Mine, ca.1907,
of the H.C. Frick Coke Company, York Run, Georges Twp., Fayette Co., PA
(Courtesy of the Minerd-Miner-Minor Family Archives, and the Focus, Tribune-Review, Greensburg, PA) |
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| The Tipple and slope entry of the York Run
Mine, ca.1914, of the H.C. Frick Coke Company, York Run, Georges Twp., Fayette
Co., PA (Courtesy of "The Weekly Courier," Connellsville, May, 1914. ) |
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| York Run Coke Works, York Run, Georges Twp., Fayette County,
Pennsylvania. The York Run Mine and Coke Works was located near the
presentday site of the Albert Gallatin Area High School. (Photo courtesy of the Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA) |
| HISTORY: York Run, Coal Company Patch Town The coal patch town of York Run consisted of approximately 170 miners houses located in several different sections, Hill Top was one section of York Run, and Brick Road was another. The miners houses in York Run had white picket fences around them, and the streets were paved in brick. Besides the miner's houses York Run contained a hotel, movie theater, clothing and dry goods store, a small grocery store, barber shop and, the Union Supply Company Store No. 50, that sold just about everything. A coal company doctor also lived in York Run, and had his office in his home. There were also a few private homes on the edge of town. The York Run Mine was probably shut down around the 1930's. Many of the young men of York Run followed a familiar trend in migrating to the Cleveland area of Ohio after returning from service in World War II. Those that remained in York Run kept the community a viable place. In ca.1952, the coal patch town of York Run was gone, almost overnight. The H.C. Frick Coke Company officials which still owned the town and the coal rights in the area decided that the coal under the community was too valuable to be left, and they demolished the houses and the entire town to strip mine remaining coal in the area. The H.C. Frick Coke Company offered the remaining residents of York Run the opportunity to buy the houses for $100.00 each, under the condition they tear them down or move them off the property. A number of residents took the company up on the offer and used the wood and other materials from the H.C. Frick houses to build new homes nearby. The old company store held the Georges Township municipal offices until it was replaced in recent years with a modern steel building. |
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| Union Supply Company Store No. 50 at York
Run, Fayette County, early in the 20th century. (Photo courtesy of the Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA) |
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| A team and wagon from the Union Supply Company
Store No. 50 at York Run, Fayette County, used to haul merchandise from various
suppliers to the store and to make deliveries to the miners houses in York
Run. (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Management Division, Uniontown, PA, and John H.Gates' book "The Beehive Coke Years.") |
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| A brick paved street in H.C. Frick Coke
Company town of York Run, ca.1930's. The fences were white washed with lime
furnished by the coal company. At the time the older boys in town were
paid twenty-five to fifty cents a day to apply the white wash to the fences
and trees. (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Management Division, Uniontown, PA, and John H. Gates' book "The Beehive Coke Years.") |
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| Undated photo of the Double-Family miners houses in York Run, Georges Twp., Fayette Co., PA (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Management Division, Uniontown, PA, and of the Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA) |
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| Side yard garden of a miner's house and
his family that took care of the garden, at York Run, Georges Twp.,
Fayette Co., PA, undated photo. (Photo courtesy of the USX Resource Management Division, Uniontown, PA, and of the Coal & Coke Heritage Center, Penn State University Fayette Campus, Uniontown, PA) |
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| The students of the York Run School ca.1911, York Run,
Georges Twp., Fayette Co., PA (Photo courtesy of Scot Novak.) |
| "Coal Miners
Memorial, York Run Mine & Coke Works, York Run, Georges Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania" |
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