Opened: ca. 1910 (best guess, this is when the patch town was constructed)
Closed: end of WWII, though the coke works were closed earlier
Owned by: Not sure.
Mine Map
13 June 1939 aerial photo
The coke works were clearly out of operation by this date, as you can see vegetation beginning to reclaim them. North is the Monongahela river, South is the patch town.
What's left today?
Nothing. When I was a kid there was the tipple, which we referred to as the "old fort", the remains of several coke ovens (only one was not collapsed) and one old mine shaft was still there. You couldn't get very far back as it was caved in/blasted in but cool air would always rush out of it. It's all gone now, as is the prep plant J&L Steel built along the river in 1950 for the Vestaburg mines across the river, which at the time was the largest in the world.
