The pay station is a two-and-a-half-story stretcher-bond red-brick building;  it contains a hipped roof of asphalt with a brick chimney.  The building rest on a concrete foundation;  modifications include windows infilled with brick and porches added to the main facadew and the rear.  The community center is a stretcher-bond red-brick building, measuring 78 ft. x 50 ft.  It contains a gable roof of asphalt with brick chimney and a concrete foundation.

A gymnasium is located on the second floor.  It has sustained a number of alterations including the installation of new windows and the construction of a two-story brick addition to the main facade.

The company-built residences on Hill Street include twenty-two single-family houses.  These are one-story wood frame buildings with hipped roofs and tall central red-brick chimneys.  They rest on cement-block foundations. These houses retain much of their original appearance.  At the end of Hill Street two three-family houses stand.  These are two-story wood-frame buildings, with gable roofd and central corbelled brick chimneys; They rest on concrete-block foundations.  A tenement building containing six apartments also survives.  It contains stucco over original wood siding and is a wood-frame building with a gable roof.

Below Hill Street is another section of dwellings containing about thirty wood-frame double houses and three-family houses, many of which have been altered with new siding and windows.  In addition, this part of town contains six single-family houses which retain much of there original appearance.

The Valley Camp mine, a drift entry mine situated on the 72"-thick Freeport Coal seam employed 300 persons and produced over 420,000 tons of coal each year.
During the First World War the Valley Camp Coal Company opened a second mine and constructed company housing, an office building, and a company store.  It named this the Kinlock Mine and company town Kinlock, after the company's superintendent Harry E. Kinlock.  The Kinlock Mine had a slope entry and a shaft entry and was situated on the 70" thick Freeport coal seam.

By ca.1918 the Kinlock Mine employed 329 persons. That year Kinlock Mine miners extracted nearly 398,000 tons of coal.   By the end of the First World War the town of Kinlock included numerous company houses, a company store, and a community center.
In 1919 Kinlock Mine produced 583,310 tons of coal, the mine worked 247 days with 484 employees. The mine had 3 fatal accidents and 16 non-fatal accidents in 1919.
In 1920 Kinlock Mine had a total production of 636,282 tons of coal, the mine worked 293 days with 540 employees.  The mine had 2 fatal accidents and 10 non-fatal accidents in 1920.
The mid-1920's witnessed the greatest mining activity at Kinlock Mine.  In 1925 Valley Camp Coal Company employed nearly 800 persons at the Kinlock Mine and about 1,047,000 tons of coal was extracted from the mine.  In addition to the Kinlock Mine, the Valley Camp Coal Company operated the nearby Valley Camp Mines and the Soudan Mine in Washington County.

(History and description of Kinlock Mine, adapted from with additional data and photos, "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.)

Kinlock Mine Disaster:  February 20, 1928
On February 20, 1928 a fatal gas explosion at the Kinlock Mine killed 12 miners. The Kinlock Mine was reopened shortly after this mining disaster.

Kinlock Mine Disaster:  March 21, 1929

On March 21, 1929 the Kinlock Mine was the site of another fatal gas explosion that killed forty-six miners.  Several of the forty-six miners killed were: John Beadling, David Behanna, Charles Edward Hanlon and Harry Hertzog.  The coal company reopened the Kinlock Mine after this mining disaster.

By the early 1930's the mine was producing more than 100,000 tons of coal per year.  The Kinlock Mine never achived the production levels it had reached prior to the 1929 explosion and the company ceased operations at the Kinlock Mine ca.1935.