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VIEW OF THE WATER FILTRATION PLANT FROM THE ACCESS ROAD, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road and Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA
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VIEW OF THE WATER FILTRATION PLANT FROM THE ACCESS ROAD, LOOKING NORTHWEST. - Tower Hill No. 2 Mine, Approximately 0.47 mile Southwest of intersection of Stone Church Road and Township Route 561, Hibbs, Fayette County, PA
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Carbon Fuel Resources, Incorporated; Tower Hill-Connellsville Coke Company; Thompson, Josiah van Kirk; Fogg, L W; Stark, H F; Gilardi, Rimonti; Piedmont Coal Company; Gallatin Land Company; Hillman Coal and Coke Company; Cultural Heritage Research Services, Incorporated, contractor; Pennsylvania Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation, sponsor; Parrish, Wanda C, historian; Parrish, Wanda C, photographer; Torbeck, Connie, historian; Daughtrey, Mary, historian; Ebeling, Mary, photographer; Rachleff, Allison, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Fayette County; Hibbs
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,26-TOHI.V,1-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The mine is significant for the technical information that can be leaned from the site as a whole and for the engineering significance of the beehive and rectangular coke ovens that survive largely intact on the site. It operated between 1907 and the mid-1940s, the period of the Lower Cennelsville Coking Region's initial rise in prosperity, as well as its decline. The site grew and changed to accommodate technological innovations as well as economic realities during this turbulent period...
  • Survey number: HAER PA-424
  • Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1912 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3525.photos.360674p
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