PATTON, PENNSYLVANIA

Howard Gas Coal Company, with headquarters in Greensburg, Pa., opened the Louise No. 1 and Louise No. 2 coal mines in the early 1900s and 1924, respectively, in Salem Twp., Westmoreland County. The associated company town of Patton was constructed as well. The Patton mines operated until the Louise No. 2 mine shut down in 1956.

March 2020 image by author There are only a few remaining coal company duplex houses at Patton.
March 2020 image by author There are also these smaller, single-family cottages built by the coal company.
March 2020 image by author This building was once the company store.
March 2020 image by author

Sources:

Fitzsimons, Gray, editor. Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania - An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. National Park Service, 1994.