The old carpenter shop with the patch town on the hill in the background. This coal mine, named the Maryland Shaft No. 2, was built by
the Wilmore Coal Company, a subcompany of the mighty Berwind-White Coal Company that dominated the Windber Field.
In the foreground is the blacksmith shop, and in the background is what was probably the bath house. The Wilmore Coal
Company stopped mining coal at Wilmore in 1961, but leased the mine to Bethleham Mines (Bethleham Steel's mining arm) before the mine was permanently closed in the 1970s.
The front of the carpenter shop.
This head frame lowered the Wilmore miners 850' down, the deepest bituminous shaft in all of Pennsylvania. Too bad it was demolished
in 1988. (Public Domain photo by Jet Lowe, Historical American Engineering Record [HAER])
The upper sheave of the shaft hoist on the head frame.(Public Domain photo by Jet Lowe, Historical American Engineering Record [HAER])
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