MONARCH, PA
The Connellsville Coke and Iron Co. built the Monarch "patch" in 1886, also known as Leisenring No. 3. The plant consisted of a vertical shaft
down into the Pittsburgh coal seam, and beehive coke ovens. H.C. Frick Coke Co. took over in 1890, and the mine was idled in 1926. During World War 2 the Leisenring No. 3 mine was reactivated, and the coal was transported many miles underground to the Monongahela River on the Colonial Beltline. The mine was abandoned once and for all in 1961.
Some of the remaining company-built homes at Leisenring No. 3, now called
Monarch.
A company-built, two-family outhouse still extant in the Leisenring No. 3 patch. I guess if you were in one side, and your neighbor was having explosive diarreah on the
other side, you could hear everything.
The house on the right has a more modern porch roof added by the owner.
There are also these smaller company-built cottages at Monarch.
The Leisenring No. 3 tipple at Monarch is no longer there.
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