Coal camp housing in Glouster, Ohio.
Stockpiles at a contemporary coal mining operation in Athens County.
Murray City gets a new fan (from a 1924 Jeffery manual)
The only remaining house from the company town of Jobs, OH.
The slate roofs of the company built houses in Eclipse, OH, constructed by the Hocking Valley Coal Company. Their No. 4 mine was at Eclipse.
Now the town has been granted a new lease on life as a tourist stop along the Hocking-Adena bike trail.
The company store at Eclipse, OH.
These are the ruins of the collapsed tipple at Millfield, OH, which was still standing as late as the 1970s. It was here that the Sunday Creek Coal Company opened their No. 6 mine. In 1930 it blew up,
resulting in the death of 82 employees of the coal company, making it the deadliest coal mining disaster in Ohio's history.
In addition to a historical marker beside the road, there are some ruins of the Sunday Creek No. 6 mine still in existence today. The tall smokestack was originally part of the powerhouse.
Detail of the small building next to the smokestack. This may have been the mine office or lamp house. There is also a red brick building nearby that is in shambles, as well.
Coal miners' housing in Millfield, OH.
The heyday of the Hocking Valley Coalfield was 1880 to 1910. The influence of the Victorian era is still evident on this store in Hemlock, OH.
One of the remaining coal camp houses at Congo, OH, where many of the coal miners were of Hungarian origin.
A coal camp outhouse still extant in Congo in 2005.
Haydenville was a company town with it's own coal mine, of course, but it also had it's own clay mine, block factory, and iron furnace. That's what makes the town unique. The enterprise, which began in the 1850s by the Haydenville Mining and Manufacturing Company,
began to wind down in the 1950s, and the operation closed in 1964 and the homes were sold to the people.
Most, but not all, of the company housing in Haydenville was constructed using the company's own blocks. There are many different styles of housing there.
Near Morristown, OH there are the ruins of an old coal mine. This building is at that site. It is perhaps a repair shop.
There are many buildings related to the mine still at the site, in addition to a few gob piles. This building may have been the mine office.
The tipple at this mine site has been demolished, and we are left with these foundations. I have no idea what the name of this coal mine was.