The Heilwood patch, established in 1904 by J.H. Weaver & Company.
By 1906 the Penn-Mary Coal Co. had taken over the coal mining operations at Heilwood. Penn-Mary was the coal mining arm of the Pennsylvania-Maryland Steel Company.
The former coal company offices at Heilwood. Evidently this once-booming town featured a hotel and hospital, among other amenities.
Interestingly enough, the jail of all things has survived.
Among structures from the mines the carpenter shop survives as as the Pine Twp. municipal garage. By the time the Heilwood mines closed they were owned by Bethlehem Steel. The medium volatile
coal along the Indiana-Cambria county lines must have been just right for metallurgical coal, because so many of the mines were captive mines of steel companies.