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Larry J. Durdines, 58, of Jefferson, died Firday, July 23, 2010 in UPMC-Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was born January 3, 1952, in Clarksville, a son of Elizabeth Krencik Durdines Sevec of Washington and the late John L. Durdines. He was a graduate of Bethlehem-Center High School and attended Penn State University in State College. A self-employed antique dealer, Mr. Durdines formerly

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Ghosts in the Hollow from Jim Lo Scalzo on Vimeo. This short video by Jim Lo Scalzo was not shot locally but it's very familiar territory just the same. The decaying buildings and rusting mine cars are things that can be seen from Pennsylvania to Alabama. The images (mostly all are still photographs) pull you into the story that the song makes. This and one other of this artists' multimedia

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Many people lived in small-town America, and many people visited or passed through those locations. Unfortunately, the economics of postcard publishing meant that very few (if any) viewcards of those towns would be available. Publishers, cleverly availing themselves of this opportunity, published generic cards with scenes that could not be placed at any location. The names of various towns could

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Coal mining began in Greene County in the late 1700's with Thomas Hughes of Jefferson. He used his slaves to strip mine coal on his property above Ten Mile Creek . It is believed that much of this was dug in the ravine between the present Jefferson Morgan High School and the football field. Coal mining was limited to small " farmer mines" scattered over the area and it was sold by the bagful.

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The East Bethlehem High School football team in 1927 Engineer Harry Wood on Waynesburg & Washington Railroad's # 9684 in 1929. The W & W was a narrow guage railroad, just 3 feet wide, so the engines and cars were all smaller than normal. That accounts for the oversized look of Mr. Wood. Pat Fagan, UMWA Local 5 President, speaking near Brownsville. He was famed as a highly effective

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Here is the Clarksville Hill School fourth grade class of 1961-62, graduating class of 1969. Top Row : Steve Markovich, Sandy Strastanko, Larry Durdines 2nd Row : Patty Mark, Pat "Pucky" Danko, Rita Mikolay, Bobby Lockett, Kathy Lewis, Billy Murphy, Janet Miles, Third Row : Ann Wishart, Bert Kiefer, Minnie Thomas, Kathy Lancaster, Bill Jenaway, Carla Lambert Fourth Row: Marie Boswell, Ron

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Shriver covered bridge and Greene County ABATE riders. photo courtesy of Greene County Tourism Have you ever wondered why were there were so many wooden covered bridges ? And why especially in Pennsylvania and the U.S. Northeast ? In the 1800's, the northeastern United States was a country in need of bridges. It is a fairly narrow coastal plain cut by many short rivers and creeks.

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A reader sent me a link to a most interesting site called Penn Pilot - Historical Aerial Photographs Of Pennsylvania. It seems that on several occasions the entire state was photographed from the air for geological survey research purposes. Different groups of images were made from the 1930's through the 1970's. They are reproduced on a Penn State University website. Shown here are a group

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Crucible Ferry areaLevine Building Fire In Rices Landing and that site todayIt's nice to welcome a new blog about our neck of the woods. Greene County native Chip Guesman has created a site he calls SWPA Rural Exploration and describes it this way " Exploring and photographing southwestern PA's abandoned mines, industry,homes....and whatever else we may find. A little history, a little legend....

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Coke ovens at Poland Mines 2009 courtesy Of SWPA Rural Exploration In the Ten Mile Creek area, Marianna, the Champion Mine at Besco, Dilworth at Rices Landing and Poland Mines # 2 all had coke ovens operating at one time or another. At most mines, a coking operation was set up as an adjunct to the mine, most mines producing more coal than they could process to coke. At Besco,

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It was a spark from a grounded trolley wire that started the Emerald Mine fire soon after seven pm on the evening of June 7, 1944. It fell into a load of hay, fodder for the horses that pulled the pitwagons. There was an attempt to push the burning car into a worked out section but the fire got out of hand and started burning the haulageway. The volunteer fire departments of East Bethlehem and

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Brownsville Pa. Looking southA description of the towns and sights along the Monongahela River from Brownsville to Fairmont in the late 1940s, written by the pilot of the towboat COAL QUEEN:You would never think, to walk the streets of Brownsville today, that the town is old and filled with history and legend. Monongahela Valley towns just do not look the part as do Lexington and Concord and

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Here's a little about the image at the top of each page. It is an old undated real photo post card and shows the tipple of a fairly early primitive coal mine. This is the type of mine that was common before the big commercial coal companies came into the area around 1890-1900. Mining coal as a business started as early as 1818 in Fredericktown. This picture likely dates from 1900 or so but the

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Mather Miners MemorialRobena Monument at Hatfield FerryDATE MINE NAME CITY LIVES LOST CAUSE03-06-02 Catsburg Monongahela, Pa. 5 Explosion11-21-03 Ferguson Connellsville, PA 17 Explosion07-06-05 Fuller Searight, PA 6 Explosion10-10-05 Hazelkirk No. 2 Monongahela, PA 2 Explosion10-13-05 Clyde Fredericktown, PA 6 Fire10-29-05 Hazel Kirk No. 2 Monongahela, PA 5 Explosion11-15-05 Braznell Bentleyville

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Robert Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an early official of the federal government, once owned 41,000 acres of land in Greene County. Much of his widespread acquisition of land was accomplished with borrowed money. That helped lead him into financial difficulty and eventually bankruptcy. Earlier, George Washington was the largest landowner in this section of Pennsylvania,

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A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to visit the Monongahela River Buffs Association Museum in Monongahela Pa. This group began in the late 1970's at Greensboro Pa ( mile 84 ) by a small group of river enthusiasts headed by Bill Young, Ernie Gabler and Bill Bennett. In 1986 MRBA moved to it's present location in Mon City.Entrance to the museum, note that the OPEN sign is extendedMy son Casey and I

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I have added a very cool feature to this site. At the bottom of this and all posts you will find a button like the one below. This will save and share any post here to one of over 60 different places. With one click you can bookmark to your favorite folder or share any post to Facebook, MySpace, Delicious, Blogger, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Stumbleupon and many others I've never even heard of.

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Here's a few pics from the well attended event last Saturday. It was beautiful weather that day, in the middle 70's and a clear bright sky. The crowd was quite large with smiles all around. The entire square was filled for the Dedication of The Veterans Monument. It was nice to see some life in the old town once more.Folks watching the parade. More pics of the weekend can be seen at the excellent

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Clarksville native Den Chulick sent a few photos of Clarksville baseball teams to share here. His father, John Chulick, was as active as any man in the community regarding baseball. He helped organize and coached both Little League and Pony League ball.Clarksville Pirates, probably 1960Front Row : Jay ( Farmer ) Doman, unknown, John Bevelacqua, Richard ( Dickey) Swinchock,Gary Mylan, unknownBack

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Yesterday my visitor total on this site reached 5,000. I am thrilled and humbled. I started this last November and my goal was to give a little back to the area that gave me so much. Much has been done and there is still much more to do. My most sincere thanks to all who look, to those who have sent kind words and to all who come back occasionally. Please remember I often update older posts with

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Enjoy some nice old views of WaynesburgMany kisses on this old view of the Waynesburg & Washington DepotFive firemen lost their lives when the Downey House burned in 1925. Not often noticed by pedestrians is the plaque to their memory on a building just to the west of the Old Fort Jackson / County Office building.West WaynesburgWaynesburg's and Greene County's tallest skyscraperThe old Ross

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A mule hauling a coal car out of the Vesta Coal Company No. 1 Mine. Mules were used almost exclusively to pull coal cars before mechanized vehicles, because Percheron's and Clydesdale horses were too expensive and too large to maneuver in the tight quarters of the mine. After electric engines ( motors ) came into use mules were still used near the face ( where the coal was being worked / loaded

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Ten Mile Creek came to be called so because it's mouth is ten miles above Old Redstone Fort at Brownsville. In the early days they named creeks and other landmarks as being so many miles from a known place, as Brownsville certainly was in the early days. Islands also took mile marker names, for instance above Louisville Ky is 18 mile island then 12 mile island and then 6 mile island. Some think

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The observance of Mitchell Day every April 1st celebrates the occasion back in 1898 when the United Mine Workers Of America gained the 40 hour week and the 8 hour day which was eventually made the standard for all working people. In most mining towns this meant a large gathering, sometimes with a parade but always with speeches from politicians and labor leaders, food, drinks and a local talent

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Clarksville around 1962, images from Clarksville Pa. This blog, while about the Ten Mile Creek area in general, has had a lot on the town of Clarksville, partly to present some new information and photos to go along with the coming 100 year observance this summer. The town officially dates from 1909, that being the year of it's charter. It was 100 years earlier, however , when Samuel Clark

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These maps give one an idea of the condition of the the ground under us and the amazing extent of mining that's gone on here. The earliest of the mines shown here were worked starting around 80 some years preceding the late 70's when this map was made. All these open to large size.There are only a few above ground reference points shown but I think there are enough to orient one as to what is

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There are a few documented instances of steamboats on Ten Mile Creek. The month of July in the year 1888 saw what was one of the biggest floods ever on the Monongahela. At Brownsville in that year the river crested at 43 feet, the all-time high water mark there. This was three feet more than even the great flood of 1936. On the crest of this 1888 flood the sternwheel towboat WILLIAM WAGNER ran up

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Company store ball field, late 40's There are at least 300 people in the photo above. On the left, the first building is a private residence, next is Dusha's Auto Body earlier it was a bowling alley and Yerkish's Beer Distributor ) then Jake Kensic's hotel. The building that was Louis Kauffman's store is just beyond Kensic's Hotel and then Steve " Caddilac " Kochis ' store. The darkest

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There are two wonderfully droll insults in this. It was placed in an early Washington County newspaper on December 1, 1795 : Whereas a certain RALPH SMITH, of Morgan Township in this County (Greene Co. after 1796), some years ago called me a convict in a public company, and later spoke the same language in ambiguous terms, (such as his good breeding afforded). I do hereby request the favor of Mr

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A click will open this partial map of the Monongahela Division of the PRR to a more readable size.collection of the author

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This is the steam packet boat ELIZABETH at Fredericktown in 1902. She was 188 feet x 35 x 5.5 and was built at Brownsville ( the hull was built at Belle Vernon ) in 1888 for the Pittsburgh - Elizabeth Pa. trade. This trade died out by 1900, no doubt because the railroad by that time went as far upriver as Brownsville. It would be 7 more years till the rails reached any farther south on the west

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DESCRIPTION OF MATHER COLLIERIES PLANT BY J. R. ELLIOTT The property of the Mather Collieries, consisting of about 4400 acres, is located at Mather, north of the village of Jefferson, Greene County, Pa. The operation is owned jointly by Pickands, Mather & Company; the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company; and the Steel Company of Canada, Ltd., Hamilton, Out., and operated by Pickands, Mather &

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Above is Center Street in Clarksville, looking north, soon after the turn of the century. The photographer has his back to the old covered bridge that spanned the south fork of the creek. The road to the left is Sugar Alley, now the Marianna road. The large lush maple trees line both sides of the dirt street. In the distance can be seen the iron bridge that crosses the north fork. This is my

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This is the river tipple at Fredericktown in the late 1920's, looking south. This was the original Clyde mine, opened in 1900.image from Bower's Fredericktown 1790-1990Coal came out of this slope portal and went directly to the river tipple as seen in this 1929 photo. Shown are 8-ton gathering locomotives, these gathered the coal cars from various working places in the mine and made up the long

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A memorial service will be held Dec. 6 to honor the miners who died 46 years ago in an explosion at U.S. Steel Corp.'s Robena Mine. Local Union 1980 and UMWA District 2 are sponsoring the service to honor the 37 miners who died in one of Greene County's worst mining disasters. A buildup of methane gas exploded, killing 37 members of a continuous miner crew while they worked. "On that fateful day,

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Most are aware of the murders of Jock Yablonski, his wife and daughter in Clarksville in 1969. Not as well known are the details of a dramatic scene took place in that same Clarksville house thirty years earlier. Years ago, my Aunt Rose Durdines Krencik ( she, and later I , grew up in a house just over the hill in the background ) told me a story of an event that was witnessed by her and many

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No steamboats ran regularly on Ten Mile but they ran right past and besides that ........ I love a steamboat. For about 80 years the easiest and cheapest way to get from Ten Mile Country to the big city ( Brownsville or Pittsburgh ) was to take the packet boat. There were actually only two choices, a mud road or the packet boat until the railroad was extended from Brownsville through

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I think this town is certainly part of Ten Mile Country. This is the company store at East Millsboro around 1907. On the right is the Monongahela Railroad ticket and freight office and Adams Express Company. My father was born in in this town in 1912 where his father was a miner. Hustead - Semans Coal and Coke Co. was part of Fayette County's J. V. Thompson cartel. They started their mine at

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Jefferson Main Street 1866 Likely near the covered bridge at the railroad underpass. W.T. Hays was a photographer from Waynesburg who did a lot of work around Greene County. This old Post Office was across the street from the present one. Jefferson's first Post Office was established in 1805. From the History Of Education in Pennsylvania by J. P. Wickersham, 1886 : In the little

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This is an 1902 banknote from the First National Bank of Millsboro Pa. This bank went out of business in the early 1930's. Harry Brockway's Livery Stable at Millsboro Pa.  Millsboro in 1876 from Caldwells Atlas   Millsboro's "taxable inhabitants" in 1859 George Bumgarner was the original patentee of the area now known as Millsboro, he applied in 1769 and it was granted in 1796.

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Marianna was a new town when this image was done about 1908. Judith Florian wrote a concise history of the town, she had this to say of the miners patch : The houses were 4, 5 or 6 rooms; the largest were permanent for mine bosses, or owners who might need temporary lodging. The smaller homes were for miners, as well as a 14-room boarding house erected on the hillside behind the mine shafts. The

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The fairground at Sandy Plains was a popular spot at the turn of the century. Cars and horses / buggy's can be seen. The Fair was first held in 1874, as many as 4,000 people attended in some years. It's hard to believe that there was this much activity there once. Opposite the entrance to the fairground was a large frame house that was for years operated as a hotel. When I was growing up in the

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The Mather station is actually in Jefferson, was built in 1919 and still looks pretty good today. It, while not being " preserved " is not deteriorating. Now that the leaves are gone I can see this building from my window. The railroad that built it was the Chartiers Southern Railway, owned jointly by the Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio and New York Central Railroads. It became part of the

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The Str. I.C. WOODWARD, well known Mon River packet at the wharf in 1912 Old Lock #6 at Rices Landing. The original lock was completed in 1856. The Engineers did a major overhaul in 1902 and this image was made after that. images collection of the author This is where you will find the W. A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop. It is a real treasure in this area and

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