Ten Mile Creek Country: Monongahela Railway / Pennsylvania Railroad Map Of Coal Mines 1943

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About This Blog

I was born at Clarksville in the house my grandfather built and in my parent's bed (thank you Doctor Cott, for making house calls back then) about 200 feet from Ten Mile Creek and I can see the creek outside my window as I write this. As many young people from this area have done, I left "as soon as I could" and stayed away for several years. I have always retained a great love for and interest in the area , it's history and it's people. Along my way I have collected old photos, artifacts and information that I intend to share here.

I am not an expert, only a student. If any thing posted here is found to be incorrect I would appreciate having it brought to my attention for correction. I try only to state positively that which I know to be true. I often update and add information on older posts so if one post has interest to you it may be worth your time to check it again occasionally. If you have any old photos I would love to see them and I may post them on here to share with others, with your permission. Any photos or images of artifacts of Ten Mile and surrounding areas will be gratefully considered for possible inclusion here. Especially desired are photos of stores, hotels, taverns, trains, boats, coal mines and bridges and photos of people working and playing.

Ten Mile Creek Country is meant to celebrate this area and especially the working people who dug and moved the coal and made the coke which made the iron and steel from which everything was made in this country.

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Recommended Reading And Reference

Always In A Hole, Arthur Vincent Ciervo, Planks Suburban Press, Camp Hill PA. 1996 - mostly Richeyville Pa. and Vesta #4 Available in some local libraries, a very scarce book

Bugdust And Blackdamp, Thomas H. Goode, Comart Press 1996 - good general local mining study

The History Of Clarksville Pennsylvania, Randi Ross Marodi, Brodak Printing, Charmichaels Pa. 2009 - copies are available from the Clarksville Borough office

Cloud by Day: The Story of Coal and Coke and People, Muriel Sheppard, 1947 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, New Edition 1991, Pittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press. - mostly Fayette County, very readable accounts of coal patch life, coke production, J.V.Thompson, much more

History of Greene County Pennsylvania, G. Wayne Smith Waynesburg, PA The Cornerstone Genealogical Society, 1996 - history of county by decade, mostly taken from county newspapers

Westward of Ye Laurall Hills, 1750-1850, Helen Elizabeth Vogt, McClain Print Co.,Parsons, WV 1974. - the most accurate and comprehensive look at aspects of Clarksville and Charmichaels, the Horn Paper scam, Hupp cabin, early stoneware makers, Redstone settlement, fox hunting and more.

Fredericktown 1790 - 1990 , W. Scott Bower and Louise Crowthers , Private Printing Tru-Copy Printing Brownsville Pa. 1991 - wonderfully done local history and a scarce book

Fredericktown Yesterday And Today, W. Scott Bower, Private Printing 1991 - Photo supplement to Fredericktown 1790 - 1990

Marianna & Mine No. 58 - The Big Mine, Lonnie L. Miller, , Rita Miller Press, Charmichaels Pa. 2008 - mostly official documents

A Bicentennial History of West Bethlehem Township and Marianna Borough 1776-1976 Lilian Potisek and Singadine Muchant, Marianna, Pa, privately printed, 1976 - an extremely scarce book

The Monongahela Railway - It's History and Operation 1903-1993 by David E. Gratz and Terry E. Arbogast, 2004

Ways Packet Directory 1848 - 1994, Capt. Frederick Way Jr. revised edition, Ohio University Press, Athens Ohio, 1994

The Tenmile Country And Its Pioneer Families : A Genealogical History Of The Upper Monongahela Valley (with surname index), Howard L Leckey, Closson Press Apollo Pa. 2001

Way's Steam Towboat Directory, Capt. Frederick Way Jr. with Joseph W. Rutter, Ohio University Press, Athens,Ohio 1990

Crucible,Val Moson, Cardinal Publishing Co. Hinckley, Ohio 1991 - scarce book

Local History Of Greene County And Southwestern Pennsylvania, Andrew J. Waychoff, McClain Printing, Parsons, W. Va. 1975

History Of Washington County Pennsylvania, Boyd Crumrine, L.H. Everts & Co. Philadelphia 1882

History Of Washington County, Pa. Earle R.Forrest, S.J. Clarke, 1926.

The Old And New Monongahela, John S. Van Voorhis Pittsburgh, Pa., Nicholson, 1893.

Nemacolin: The Mine and the Community, 1917-1950.Robert Korcheck, Nemacolin, PA. - another scarce book

The Monongahela, Richard Bissell, part of the Rivers of America series, Rinehart & Co., Inc., New York, 1952 - very readable river history with chapters about working on towboats on the Mon, steamboat builders, coal traffic, mining and more

Coal And Coke In Pennsylvania, Carmen DiCiccio, Pennsylvania Historical And Museum Comission, Harrisburg, 1996

Centre To Center, Susie Zebley, Editor, Private Printing, Centennial Edition, 1996 - Centerville Borough, Vestaburg, Denbo, Lowhill. a scarce book

More to come................