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| Madison Mine (
ca. ), Located on the Hempfield Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, on the Little Sewickley Creek, near Darragh, Hempfield Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA Owners: (ca.1909 - ? ) United - Connellsville Coke Company, Gans, PA (ca. ? - late 1930's) Keystone Coal & Coke Company, Greensburg, PA (ca.? - 1970's) Cambruzzi Coal Company, Darragh, PA |
| DESCRIPTION: The town of Darragh is composed of a T-shaped row of approximately twenty coal company built houses, a company store, and a church. The coal company store is a large two-and-one-half-story wood-frame building presently covered with aluminum siding. Measuring 108 feet x 58 feet and containing a hipped roof and a concrete-block foundation, the building retains some of its original multi-light double-hung sash windows with architraves and molded lintels. It has been converted into a residence. The original storefront remains, though it was covered as part of a porch enclosure, and the main entrance retains its large double doors and its multi-light transom. Typical of early twentieth-century wood-frame residences found in the region's coal mining towns, the coal company-built dwellings are both single-family and double houses. Two larger wood-frame two-story houses remain fromBoss's Row,located off PA Rt.136. The church is a wood frame building with wood siding, a gable roof, and a steeple. The mine site ca.1994, contained a timber and steel-frame mine tipple, built in the 1950's by the Cambruzzi Coal Company, this tipple replaced the original Madison Mine tipple. Nearby is an early 1900's brick building that may have served as a repair shop for the mine. In addition, the site retains a concrete-block fan house with its machinery intact, ca.1994. |
| HISTORY: Darragh was originally called New Madison, the town of Darragh was established in 1890 by the Madison Gas Coal Coal Company of Greensburg, PA. This coal company was led by Thomas Donohoe, who was also head of the Alexandria Coal Company, which operated the Alexandria Mine at Goff, Salem Township. In 1890 the Madison Gas Coal Company opened the drift-entry Madison Mine and constructed ten double houses and a coal tipple in New Madison. They renamed the town Darragh. The Madison Mine and town were served by the Hempfield Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, off of the Southwest Pennsylvania Branch from Greensburg, PA. |
| "Coal Miners Memorial,
Madison Mine, Darragh, Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania" |
| "History of the
Sewickley Mine, Arona, Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania" |
| "History of the Arona
Mine, Arona, Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania" |
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