Everything about The Connellsville Coalfield totally explained
The
Connellsville Coalfield is located in
Fayette County and
Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, between the
city of Latrobe and the small
borough of Smithfield, and is sometimes known as the Connellsville Coke Field. This is because the section of the
Pittsburgh seam of coal in this coalfield was famous as one of the finest metallurgical coals in the world. It is locally known as the Connellsville coal seam, but is actually a portion of the Pittsburgh seam. Coal was mined in this field from the early 1800s. Actual coking of the coal was first tried near Connellsville in the 1840s. After the Civil War a beehive
coke industry gained a foothold in the region. The heyday of the Connellsville Coalfield was from the 1880s to the 1920s. At least 60 company towns, known as "coal patches", were constructed in the field. H.C. Frick Coal and Coke - a subsidiary of
U.S. Steel after 1903 - was the major player. Other notable industrialists included Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, W. J. Rainey, and Philip Cochran. The coalfield endured the long decline in the beehive coke industry and a gradual exhuastion of the coal reserves. Mining activity is minimal now, and only relegated to the occasional
strip mine.
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