Attractive two-family patch housing at the "model" patch of Slickville. These "model" coal towns were built by the Coal and Steel companies during the last few decades of the Coal and Coke Patch era to provide a more pleasant and habitable
community for it's employees and their families. It was also supposed to placate the employees to the point that they would think they wouldn't need the UMWA.
Slickville was the last coal patch to be built in Westmorland County, PA. The Cambria Iron Company built the town and coal mine in 1916.
The commissary stands abandoned at Slickville, PA.
Aside from this slate dump, there is scant evidence of the coal operations at Slickville today. Bethelham Steel took over Slickville in 1923 and closed the mine there twenty years later.
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