Vesta Mine No. 1

1910

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Vesta Mine No. 1
  • Title
  • Vesta Mine No. 1
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B009.F06.I09
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B009.F06.I09
  • Description
  • Vesta Coal Company No. 1 Mine tipple at Allenport, Pennsylvania. 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 border 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 frozen Monongahela River is visible in the background. The Vesta No. 1 Mine closed in 1925.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Vesta Coal Company.Vesta No. 1.
    Coal trade--Pennsylvania--Allenport.
    Allenport (Pa.)
    Monongahela River (W. Va. and 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
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