Patch houses and slate dump at Edna No. 1, a mining operation opened by the Pittsburgh & Baltimore Coal Co. around 1900. The mine was later operated by several other companies until it's closure in 1945.
Just beyond the edge of the city of Irwin, PA is the patch town of Hahntown, and this section of Hahntown is called Scab Hill. That is because these company houses were constructed in 1910 to house strikebreakers that were brought in to work in the Penn Gas No. 2 mine.
Westmoreland Coal Company closed the mine in 1953.
The Trees Mills coal patch, built by the Delmont Gas Coal Company in 1915, housed miners working an isolated hilltop of the Pittsburgh coal vein. Pittsburgh coal occurs only a little north of here before pinching out. The
small Trees Mills coal mine apparently closed in 1928, though it's outcrop was stripped in later years.
Herminie No. 2 is your typical Western Pennsylvania coal patch town. The coal mine here, called the Ocean No. 2 mine, has been closed since 1938.
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