Few residents in Bethel Park, PA probably realize that this structure in their town was once the bath house for the Pittsburgh Terminal Railroad and
Coal Company's No. 8 Mine. This mine, in the Pittsburgh seam, was opened around 1919-1920, and mining continued into the late 1940s.
Once a shop building for the No. 8 mine, this building has been transformed for commercial use. Besides this and the bath house, all other structures from
the No. 8 mine - tipple foundations, fan, rail spur, slate dump - have been removed, and the area has been enveloped in suburbia.
The patch town that housed the miners of the No. 8 mine is known as Coverdale, now a part of Bethel Park, PA.
These two story "shotgun" houses are the most common structure in the Coverdale patch.
More of the company houses built on a hillside in Coverdale.
Another style of patch house at Coverdale is the bungalow with a pyramid roof. All of the housing in this coal company town
appeared to be of the single family variety.
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