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AMEND, PA

While the Connellsville Coalfield was defined by a section of the Pittsburgh coal seam, there was an area south of Uniontown where the Sewickley seam reached a commercially viable thickness. In 1916, the Amend Coal Company opened a drift mine into this seam. They named the mine Amend No. 1, and constructed a company town to house the miners. A few years later two new entries were driven on the other side of the hollow and named Amend No. 2 and No. 3. In 1923, the Jamison interests of Greensburg, Pa. absorbed Amend Coal Co. into Irwin Gas Coal Company, and the mines beame known as Irwin No. 11. However, the town has always been known as Amend. I'm not sure when the mine closed, but it was still opereating in the 1940s.

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All that remains of the Amend coal mines are company houses, such as these "shotgun" houses that may have been partially pre-fabricated structures that were shipped to the site and quickly erected.

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These cottage type company houses are also present at Amend, and reflect reforms in company town designs post 1900.

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There are also a few duplex houses that are so common in Western Pennsylvania "coal patch towns." One of them retains its dual chimneys.

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These company houses have held up well over a century after their erection.