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| Dibble Mine (Irwin Gas Coal No. 2 Mine) (Boxcartown Mine) (ca.1917- ? ), Located on the Turtle Creek Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Turtle Creek Branch, Essler Spur, near Export, Franklin Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA [Dibble Mine was renamed Irwin Gas Coal No. 2 Mine after the old No.1 Mine joined up with it underground.] Owners: (ca.1917- ? ) Irwin Gas Coal Company, Greensburg, PA
Irwin Gas Coal No. 1 Mine
Irwin Gas Coal No. 2 Mine
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| A portion of the Greensburg, PA 7 1/2 min quad map showing the location of Boxcartown, PA, Pleasant Valley, PA and Penn Township. |
| DESCRIPTION: Dibble Mine (Boxcartown Mine): Boxcartown is located up Lyons Run, several miles from the intersection of Lyons Run & Byers run in a northeast & due east direction. Lyons Run breaks up into two, 1 mile long forks shortly after that (1/4 mile). Boxcartown Mine was located on the Pennsylvania Railroad, Turtle Creek Branch, Essler spur, a single track spur which followed the run up to the mine, just east of Boxcartown near the mentioned fork. I have seen deed descriptions where Irwin Gas Coal Company bought land from Westinghouse Electric in ca.1917, that was several hundred acres of fee surface land on which to build the Boxcartown patch & the Irwin Gas Coal Company No. 2 portal (Dibble Mine). The towns old folks told me back in the early 1960's that the town was larger than the 8 to 10 houses, still there and was piped for water (for fire fighting purposes). In fact, we found a very old style hydrant connected to something (pipeline?) in a then, field along where the road/street would have continued, at one time. We'd found a concrete foundation down where the old folks had said that it was where the company store was located. There wasn't much extant of the mine, except for a few> rusted/rotted mine cars & a big steel/iron pulley set of 3' dia. Wheels & subsidence & boney dumps. Once I get the topos I can better show what I (may) know of the area. At one time Penn Twp. had erected a 1(?) room schoolhouse across Lyon's Run there, too. My buddy's dad was said to have gone there in the early 1930s. The road has been so named, Boxcartown Road since the 1970s. (Courtesy of Robert Froyd.) |
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| A town plan of the Boxcartown Patch, Penn Township, Westmoreland Co., PA, ca.1938. (Courtesy of Robert Froyd.) |
| HISTORY: The Irwin Gas Coal Company of Greensburg, Pennsylvania was formed about 1917 and acquired coal properties in northern Westmoreland County in the vicinity of Export, PA, Newlonsburg, PA and Pleasant Valley, PA. By ca.1918 Irwin Gas Coal Company, led by C. L. Clark of Greensburg, PA, operated Irwin Gas No. 1 and No. 2 Mine, and the Dibble Mine (Boxcartown Mine), all near Newlonsburg, PA. These mines exploited the 72 inch thick Pittsburg Coal seam, the Irwin Gas Coal Company mines produced over 229,000 tons of coal in ca.1918, virtually all of which was shipped to market over the Pennsylvania Railroad line. (History and description of the Irwin Gas Coal Company Mines, with additional data and pictures adapted from "Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, 1994," 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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