Coke ovens at Hecla No. 3, also known as Southwest, PA.
This coke oven at Hecla No. 3 is a good illustration of where the beehive coke oven got it's name.
Part of the patch at Hecla No. 1. The Thaw and Dorsey Coal and Coke Co. built Hecla No. 1 in 1882.
This coke oven at Hecla still has it's trunnel hole,through which the larry cars loaded the coal into the oven. H.C. Frick Coke Co. had taken over operations of Hecla No. 1 by 1929, and they closed the operation that year.
A few of the bigger, multi-family patch houses. The large blue one may have been a boarding house.
Although the school building at Hecla has fallen into disrepair, someone still mows the grass around it.
One of the gob piles still remains from the Hecla No. 1 operation.
View of a portion of the Hecla patch from the top of the gob pile. Steel rails may have
been from the "slate" disposal system.