Palanka, a typical Western Pennsylvania patch town, housed the miners of
Pittsburgh Coal Company's Midland No. 1 coal mine. As a matter of fact some locals still refer to the area as "Midland."
Two company-built houses - one a duplex for two families found all over Southwestern PA, and the other, larger
one may have been a boarding house.
The coal company must have built these garages for the families that owned cars. The garages
are in the alley behind the main row of homes, near where the company store used to be located.
A view of the Palanka patch from the top of the slate dump. The only other feature of the Midland mine I
saw at Palanka beside the slate dump were some tipple foundations in the woods, and a brick structure that was behind the tipple ruins, and was on a private
residential property.
Patch town burn barrel.
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