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| Latrobe No. 1 Mine & Coke Works (City No. 1 Mine) (Lloydsville Mine) (ca.1878-ca.1925), A slope entry mine located on Greegs Run [Later renames Unity Run] and the Lloydsville Spur off the Unity Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad Mainline, West Latrobe, at Lloydsville, Unity Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA [Latrobe No. 1 Coke Works contained 136 bee-hive coke ovens ca.1917.] Owners: (ca.1878- ? ), Saxman, Jr., & Company, Latrobe, PA (ca.1910- ? ), Latrobe Coal Company, Latrobe, PA (ca.1925- ? ), City Coal Company, Greensburg, PA
Loydsville Mine (ca.
? ), one entrance was located just past the patch houses,
in the hillside by present day repair shop, on the Betty Road, Loydsville,
Unity Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA |
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| Map of Latrobe No. 1 Mine & Coke Works,
ca.1902. A portion of the ca.1902 U.S.G.S. 15min. Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Quad. map showing the coal patch town of Lloydsville, the mine and coke
works, and the surrounding coal patch towns. The Pennsylvania
Railroad mainline alignment shown is old alignment of the railroad, the mainline
was realigned between Latrobe and Greensburg some time after 1902. (Map courtesy of United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.) |
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| A New Map of the Connellsville Coke Region and Adjacent Fields, South Western Pennsylvania. ca.1910, by J.B. Hogg (Map courtesy of the Latrobe Area Historical Society, Archives Collections, Latrobe, PA.) |
| DESCRIPTION: A few concrete piers are all that survives of the Latrobe No. 1 Mine & Coke Works. These works were located on the west side of PA Rt. 981, east of the Village of Dorothy, just west of West Latrobe, in a valley leading to Loydsville, Unity Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. A portion of the old Pennsylvania Railroad mainline that served The Latrobe No. 1 Mine and the Monastery Mine can still be traced through the St. Vincent Farm lands from just east of Beatty Station almost to the site of the Latrobe No. 1 Mine and the Monastery Mine location. A group of approximately twenty-five single and double houses are located in West Latrobe, west of the Loyalhanna Creek. These houses may have been built by the Edgar Thomson Steel Company to house its employees who worked at the nearby Monastery Mine or the Latrobe No. 1 Mine. They date from the late nineteenth century and are two-story wood-frame buildings with gable and rubble-stone foundations. Again, most of these residences have been altered with porch enclosures and metal siding placed over the original wood-siding. |
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| The 1903 Sanborn Insurance Map of Latrobe,
showing the Latrobe No. 1 Mine & Coke Works, west of Latrobe, Lloydsville,
Unity Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA. The Houses and other outbuildings
shown on this map have all probably been removed. (Scan to the right
to see the entire map.) (Courtesy of the Latrobe Area Historical Society, Archives Collections, Latrobe, PA) |
| The Latrobe No. 1 Mine was purchased by the City Coal
Company of Greensbuurg, Pa around ca.1919. City Coal Company torn down
the works and the mine building ca.1925.
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| "Coal Miners Memorial,
Latrobe No. 1 Mine & Coke Works West Latrobe, Lloydsville, Unity Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania" |
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