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| Heshbon, Brush Valley Twp. & West Wheatfield
Twp., Indiana Co., PA [A coal company patch town in Brush Valley Twp., Indiana County, Pennsylvania.] See: Auld Run Coal Company, Heshbon, PA Auld Run Mine, Heshbon, Indiana Co., PA Heshbon Mine, Heshbon, Brush Valley Twp., Indiana Co., PA Heshbon No. 2 Mine, Heshbon, West Wheatfield Twp., Indiana Co., PA Heshbon No. 3 Mine, Heshbon, West Wheatfield Twp., Indiana Co., PA Heshbon No. 4 Mine, Heshbon, West Wheatfield Twp., Indiana Co., PA Hill Top Coal Company, Heshbon, PA Hill Top Mine, Heshbon, Indiana Co., PA
Heshbon Mine (ca.? ),
Heshbon No. 2 Mine (ca.1936-1951
? ),
Heshbon No. 3 Mine (ca.1936-1951
? ),
Heshbon No. 4 Mine
(ca.1940's ?-1965), Heshbon School, Brush Valley Twp., Indiana Co., PA |
| DESCRIPTION: Little remains of this former mining complex above Blacklick Creek, one mile west of of the West Wheatfield Township Village of Heshbon. The tipple of the Heshbon No. 4 Mine was built on a foundation of cast concrete blocks and was supported by a welded steel frame. Coal was dropped through shaker plates in the tipple, and loaded by gravity to rail cars on a track below. The superstructure has been entirely dismantled, and the remainder of the structure is in ruins. Next to the tipple was a truck scale. Also on the site was a large coal conveyor, but it has been removed and only traces or its footings were visible ca.1993.
A ca.1965 photograph, taken when the Heshbon Mine complex
was about to be shut down, shows the tipple as a five story structure covered
with corrugated siding, and connected with the mines by conveyors. Scale
houses and other buildings were of board-and-batten frame
construction. |
| HISTORY: This mine was operated by the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Company in the mid-twentieth century. Sixty men were employed at the peak of production. Operations here ceased in ca.1965, and the remaining twenty-seven men were laid off. The tipple and conveyors were removed after ca.1981, as they are indicated on a USGS quad map revised ca.1981.
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