Connellsville Coke Region

Connellsville Coke Region is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Uniontown, Fayette County, dedicated 2007.

US Rt. 119S, near entrance to PSU Fayette, Eberly Campus, Uniontown

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Located in Fayette and Westmoreland Counties, the region's abundant high quality Pittsburgh vein coal yielded superior coke, used to smelt iron. This refined form of coal was produced in beehive ovens from the mid-19th century to the 1970s. Immigrant and migrant workers who settled here after the Civil War provided labor for the booming coke industry. Byproduct ovens built near steel mills eventually rendered beehives obsolete.

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1823 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1848 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Westmoreland, Fayette counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Allegheny, Washington, Greene counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1939 · Uniontown, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Westmoreland, Fayette counties, 1872, covering the location of Connellsville Coke Region, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Westmoreland, Fayette counties, 1872, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Connellsville Coke Region

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