ROSEYTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA (HEMPFIELD MINE)

Hempfield Coal Co. opened the Roseytown mines (Hempfield No. 1 and No. 2) in the late 1800s. By 1907, Keystone Coal and Coke Co. had purchased the Roseytown mines and installed a ten-ton Jeffrey mine locomotive. Later, the nearby Crows Nest mine and the Roseytown mine were joined, and miners from the Crows Nest mine entered through the Roseytown portal.

Jan. 2019 image by author The entrance to Roseytown from the south.
Jan. 2019 image by author Coal company patch houses.
Jan. 2019 image by author About the only remaining structure from the Hempfield mine is this brick building, which used to be the mine's lamp house.
Jan. 2019 image by author Sign on the former lamp house.
Jan. 2019 image by author

Sources:

Edited by Raymond A. Washlaski, Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania.

Report of the Department of Mines, Part II Bituminous, 1907, accessed through coalmininghistorypa.org.