Saturday, December 15, 2012
We will reveal the answer on Monday.
The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch has partnered with the Baldwin Historical Society to bring you a weekly trivia question that delves into our area's colorful past. Pat Lombardi and Patty Woehler, co-presidents of the society, generously write the questions and provide the pictures. Here is this week's question: The picture on the left is of a mine tipple in the early 1900s. The tipple was used for the Horning Mine. The picture on the right shows a woman near the tipple carrying water to her house from a source about two or three blocks away. Hers and her neighboring homes were company houses where miners lived. The houses' neighborhood usually had a company store in it from which the residents purchased all of their goods. What was this mining …
Sunday, March 4, 2012
We will reveal the answer on Monday.
The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch has partnered with the Baldwin Historical Society to bring you a weekly trivia question that delves into our area's colorful past. Pat Lombardi and Patty Woehler, co-presidents of the society, write the questions and provide the pictures. Here is this week's question: The mine in this picture—known officially and plainly as Mine No. 4—was owned and operated by the Pittsburgh Coal Company, which later merged with Consolidation Coal Company (known today as CONSOL Energy). The picture, taken in 1935, shows a "patch"—a row of mining houses owned by the company. The coal tipple was near the train tracks, and there was a reservoir nearby where the locals would ice skate in the winter and fish in the summer. What was …
Sunday, January 29, 2012
We will reveal the answer on Monday.
The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch has partnered with the Baldwin Historical Society to bring you a weekly trivia question that delves into our area's colorful past. Pat Lombardi and Patty Woehler, co-presidents of the society, write the questions and provide the pictures. Here is this week's question: In the mid-1950s, firefighters from three stations—Brentwood Volunteer Fire Company, Baldwin Independent Fire Company No. 1 and Option Independent Fire Company—were called to duty to put out a fire at this abandoned coal tipple in Baldwin Borough. The firefighters used small sprays of water drawn from a nearby stream but were unable to stop the burning. The four-bin tipple soon became a charred skeleton. Fire had been burning underground for some …
Robert Edward Healy, III
11:01 pm on Monday, December 17, 2012
Coal stuff. Thanks! more ›