Reading Mines, in Quemahoning Township, was started in 1908 by the Reading Iron Company (named for Reading, Pa.). Coal mining at Reading Mines, sometimes known as Reading No. 3, ended in the 1940s.
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These brick buildings remain from the coal mine. The one on the left was originally a combination car barn and machine shop. The one on the right was the powerhouse. They are now being reused in an industrial enterprise.
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Living the white-picket-fence American dream in Reading Mines.
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Since these former company houses have been so substantially modified, I cannot determine if they were originally double-family duplexes or single-family management houses.
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Antique vehicle collection and antique coal company houses.
Sources:
Summers, Patrica, editor. Somerset County, Pennsylvania; An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. 1994.
