A bituminous coal mining town and structures in Western Pennsylvania. A coal patch (called "coal camp" elsewhere) is a town where everything was built and owned by a coal company, including schools, churches, stores, theatres, and residential structures. Coal patches in Western Pennsylvania generally date from the 1870s through the 1920s. Although the coal seams around the patches are mined out and the coke ovens are crumbling ruins, people still live in these towns in homes built by the coal companies a century or more ago.
Location
Clymer, Pennsylvania, 15728, United States