No. 4 Mine - California, Pennsylvania

1907

View this item

Title
No. 4 Mine - California, Pennsylvania
Identifier
MSP33.B009.F01.I14
Source Identifier
MSP33.B009.F01.I14
Description
The Vesta Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, was incorporated on December 22, 1891. The company operated seven “captive” mines on the Monongahela River between Allenport and Fredericktown on the boundary of Washington and Greene Counties between 1892 and the 1970s. Jones & Laughlin barges traveling on the Monongahela River brought coal from the Vesta Mines to the beehive ovens of the Eliza furnaces at the company’s Pittsburgh Works. The Vesta mines were the largest operating underground coal mines in the world after the No. 4 and No. 5 mines were joined together. The mine tipple (center), with both river and rail loading facilities, was located on the Monongahela River near the dividing line between California and Coal Center Boroughs.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Vesta Coal Company.Vesta No. 4 Mine.
Coal trade--Pennsylvania--Richeyville.
Tipples--Pennsylvania--Richeyville.
Barges--Pennsylvania--Richeyville.
Titan (Steamboat)
Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
California (Pa.)
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
Richeyville (Pa.)
Source
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
Rights Information
Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/