Jamison Coal and Coke Company built their No. 1 mine was at Luxor, PA in the 1890s. Here is the remains of the coal washing plant that the company built in 1907.
Remaining beehive coke ovens at Luxor that were part of the Jamison No. 1 operation.
In 1940 the Sekora Coal Company acquired the coal mine at Luxor. After this they relocated the tipple that you see here from the nearby Crow's Nest mine. Note abandoned mining equipment in the background.
Another view of the tipple at Luxor.
These homes in the Luxor patch are still inhabited.
The "red dog" is evidence that the slate dump at Luxor was once on fire.
Coal mining at Luxor ended in 1972.
Unfortunately Sekora Coal Co. demolished the Luxor tipple in February 2004, bringing down one of the last coal tipples in Westmoreland County. (Photo courtesy of the Tribune-Review, Greensburg, PA)