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| Marietta No. 1 Mine & Coke
Works (ca.1907-1922), .2 miles S. on White City Road from Wilpen, on the Marietta Spur line of the Ligonier Valley Railroad, near Wilpen, Marietta, Ligonier Twp., Westmoreland Co., PA Owners: (ca.1907-1922) Marietta-Connellsville Coke Company, Ligonier, PA & Connellsville, PA Marietta Coke Works contained 40 bee-hive coke ovens ca.1910.
Marietta No. 2 Mine
(ca.1915-1924),
Marietta No. 3 Mine
(ca.1915-1924), |
| DESCRIPTION: Only a bank of coke ovens and two company houses , ca.1994, represent the Marietta Coal Company's Marietta No. 1 Mine & Coke Works and Marietta No. 3 Mine near Wilpen, Ligonier Township. Approximately forty bee-hive bank coke ovens with rubble stone fronts are located on the hillside adjacent to the old railroad bed, of the Ligonier Valley Railroad. The tipple once stood near the south end of the curved row of coke ovens. Twelve houses composed the coal patch, and the residents used the company store at Wilpen. The company houses incluided two-story single-family residences and four-bay double houses with central brick chimneys, gable roofs and rubble-stone foundations. |
| HISTORY: The Marietta - Connellsville Coke Company, a small Connellsville-based coal and coke concern which had local offices in Ligonier, PA, opened the Marietta Mine & Coke Works in ca.1907. This drift-entry mine was situated on the 90 inch-thick Pittsburgh Coal seam. The company officers included members of the Marietta family who lived in Connellsville. S. R. Kelly of Ligonier was appointed general superintendent of the Marietta Mine. Served by the Marietta spur line off the Wilpen Branch of the Ligonier Valley Railroad, the Marietta Mine & Coke Works employed thirty-five miners by ca.1910. That year the company's miners produced about 14,000 tons of coal and the coke works, containing forty bee-hive coke ovens, produced about 9,000 tons of coke. Marietta miners extracted coal by hand and produced about 31,000 tons of coal in ca.1913. Mules were used to haul coal from the mine to the coke ovens. By ca.1914 the drift-entry mine and the coke works employed thirty-one miners. The physical plant consisted of one small boilerhouse containing a single boiler with a capacity of fifteen horsepower. By ca.1918, R. Marietta led the company, which then operated two additional Marietta mines, the original mine, Mariette No. 2 Mine and Marietta No. 3 Mine. In addition, R. Marietta had a controlling interest in the nearby Hazelburg Mine & Coke Works of the Connellsville Coke & Fuel Company. The Hazelburg Mine was also served by the Wilpen Branch of the Ligonier Valley Railroad. The Marietta Mine employed thirty-five men in ca.1918 and produced about 66,500 tons of coal. Its coke works were abandoned and nearly all of the coal produced at the mines was shipped to outside markets. During 1919 and 1920 only the Marietta No. 3 Mine was in operation. In 1919 Marietta No. 3 Mine produced 18,145 tons of coal and no coke, it worked 142 days, and employed 20 miners, and had no accidents. In 1920 Marietta No. 2 Mine produced 32,250 tons of coal and worked 244 days with 21 miners, the mine had 1 fatal accident, and the miners used 2,000 pound of permissible explosives. By 1922 the original Marietta No. 1 Mine was abandoned and the Marietta No. 3 Mine operated only 112 days. Its twenty miners produced slighty more than 9,000 tons of coal. The mine was closed and abandoned in 1924. |
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