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| Coal Run (Clune P.O.), Young Twp., Indiana
Co., PA [A coal company patch town in Young Twp., Indiana County, Pennsylvania.] [The town of Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA is also called Clune. The Post Office is called Clune P.O.] [Located one mile northwest of Jacksonville, Young Twp., Indiana County, Pennsylvania.] [Located on the U.S.G.S. 7 1/2 min quad map: McIntyre, PA.] [UTM: 17 E.643700 - N.4499950.] See: Coal Run No. 1 Mine, Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA Coal Run No. 2 Mine, Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA Coal Run No. 3 Mine (Kent No. 3 Mine), Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA Coal Run No. 4 Mine (Kent No. 4 Mine), Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA Coal Run No. 5 Mine (Kent No. 5 Mine), Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA Coal Run No. 6 Mine (Kent No. 6 Mine), Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA Coal Run No. 7 Mine (Kent No. 7 Mine), Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA Coal Run No. 8 Mine (Kent No. 8 Mine)>, Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA Coal Run No. 9 Mine (Kent No., 9 Mine), Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA Coal Run No. 10 Mine (Kent No. 10 Mine), Coal Run, Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA See also: Clune, P.O. (Coal Run), Young Twp., Indiana Co., PA
Coal Run No. 1 Mine (ca.1912-
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Coal Run No. 2 Mine (ca.1912-
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Coal Run No. 3 Mine
Coal Run No. 4 Mine
Coal Run No. 5 Mine
Coal Run No. 6 Mine
Coal Run No. 7 Mine
Coal Run No. 8 Mine
Coal Run No. 9 Mine
Coal Run No. 10 Mine |
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| The Jacksonville Coal Field, Indiana Co.,
PA, as it was developed by the Rochester & Pittsburg Coal & Iron
Company, with the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway. (Research and Map courtesy of Eileen Mountjoy Cooper, formerly of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, copied from Cooper's book "Rochester &: Pittsburgh Coal Company: The First Hundred Years." ca.1982) |
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| A portion of the 7 1/2 min. topo. map showing Coal Run (Clune P.O.), and the location of the various patches of miners houses. (Courtesy of the U.S.Geological Survey Washington, D.C..) |
| DESCRIPTION: Coal Run, Clune P.O., Young Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania consists of 4 patches of coal company built houses, the former mine office building, and the recreation hall, with various additions. The coal company store building burnt down year ago. |
| HISTORY: The Coal Run Mining Company also had interests in the Jacksonville Field, and made its first shipment on January 16, 1913. The Coal Run operation was privately owned by Lucius Waterman Robinson, who at the time was still president of the Rochester & Pittsburg Coal & Iron Company. The coal company patch town that grew up around the Coal Run Mines were located between McIntyre and Aultman on the the Coal Run spur line from the Jacksonville Branch of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway. Nearly 75 houses made up the coal town formerly known as the Clune Post Office and appropriately named Coal Run. Eventually ten deep mines and a surface strip mine were operated at the site. In ca.1914, one year after their opening, the first three mines at Coal Run produced 103,101 tons of coal and employed 194 men and boys. The coal Run Mining Company officially became a part of Rochester & Pittsburg Coal & Iron Company in 1931, and after that date the former Coal Run Mines were renamed the "Kent Mines." The name "Kent" was derived from a family connection of the Iselins with the Copunty of Kent, England. Kent No. 7 Mine, however, was formerly known as the "Harriet Mine," in honor of the wife of Lucius Watrerman Robinson, Jr.
In 1920 FBI agents from Pittsburgh arrest nine miners at Coal
Run, Indiana County, for communist activities. Two are considered for
deportation. State Police and FBI agents later arrest an anarchist at Sagamore,
Armstrong County, for possessing a large quantity of anarchistic
literature. |
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| A group of miners at the Coal Run Mine
ca.1913, the Coal Company Store clerks and managers are pictured on
the left. (Photo courtesy of Eileen Mountjoy Cooper, formerly of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, copied from Cooper's book "Rochester &: Pittsburgh Coal Company: The First Hundred Years." ca.1982) |
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| Front-view of the Coal Run Company Store
Building ca.1910, in the mining town of Coal Run [Clune P.O.], Pennsylvania.
This store was located along the Coal Run Spur of the Buffalo, Rochester
& Pittsburg Railway tracks leading to one of the Coal Run Mine Tipples.
The building was destroyed by a fire some years ago. (Photo courtesy of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company Media Collection, MG 94: Series III, Box 10 Photographs, P-498. Special Collections Library, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.) |
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| Rear view of the coal company store at Coal
Run [Clune P.O.], Indiana Co., Pennsylvania, ca.1910. Note the outhouse
along the small stream,and what appears to be the holding tank for an older
outhouse, directly behind the double doors. (Photo courtesy of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company Media Collection, MG 94: Series III, Box 10 Photographs, P-484. Special Collections Library, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.) |
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| The brick and stone portion of this building is the former coal company recreation building at Coal Run showing the many changes and additions done over the years. (Photo ca.2006 by Ray Washlaski.) |
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| The coal company office building in Coal Run, used as the Clune Post Office. The old company safe is still in the building. (Photo ca.2006 by Ray Washlaski.) |
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| The upper patch of coal company houses in coal
Run. (Photos ca.2006 by Ray Washlaski.)
The upper patch of coal company houses in coal Run. (Photos ca.2006 by Ray Washlaski.)
The upper patch of coal company houses in coal Run. (Photos ca.2006 by Ray Washlaski.)
The upper patch of coal company houses in coal Run. (Photos ca.2006 by Ray Washlaski.) |
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| The lower patch of double family coal company houses in Coal Run. (Photo ca.2008 by Ray Washlaski.) |
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| The lower patch of double family coal company houses in Coal Run. (Photo ca.2008 by Ray Washlaski.) |
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| Remains of a tipple at Coal Run , located between the upper and lower patch of coal company houses. (Photo ca.2008 by Ray Washlaski.) |
| Holy Cross Byzantine Rite Catholic Church,
Coal Run, PA
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| The abandoned Holy Cross Byzantine Rite Catholic Church
building on the road into Coal Run. (Photo ca.2008 by Ray Washlaski.) |
| Holy Cross Church was built in Coal Run,
Indiana County, Pennsylvania in ca.1945. A number of residents of McIntyre
and other nearby mining communities were members of the Byzantine Rite
Catholic Church, also called the Eastern Catholic Church. This church follows
the traditions of Orthodoxy but gives allegiance to the Pope. Stylistically,
the church has two cupolas and a number of stained glass windows.
This church is located a few miles from McIntyre in the town of Coal Run. Coal Run was also one of the seventeen mining towns controlled by the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company. |
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