The patch housing in Boswell, PA is brick because the town's founder, Thomas Boswell, didn't want his coal town to burn down. The mine there was opened around 1901 by the United Coal Co. of Pittsburg, and later by Davis Coal Co. The final name of the operator of Boswell
was Merchant's Coal Company. The mine closed on March 29, 1939 and the tipple was dismantled in 1940. Another coal mine at Boswell was called Atlantic Coal Co. This mine was located along present day Route 601 across from Boswell Lumber. All of this information comes from the Boswell Historical Society.
Merchants Coal Company powerhouse at Boswell (Public domain photo by Jet Lowe, 1992, Historical American Engineering Record).