Keeling Coal Company

Keeling Coal Company

The Keeling Coal Company was a nineteenth century mining company in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Ormsby Mine

The Ormsby mine was an underground coal mine, originally opened in 1835 by the son-in law of Oliver Ormsby, John Harding Page and Captain Phillips. It was operated by Doctor Oliver Harrison Ormsby, the son of the above named Oliver Ormsby, from 1851 to 1861.The Keeling Coal Company operated it from 1861 to May of 1878, when it was taken over by the Birmingham Coal Company, which had Joseph Keeling as one of its partners. [cite book |title=Report of Progress... |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ip0MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=%22Ormsby+Mine%22&source=web&ots=Ik0HNWnM49&sig=rO8LNG86vCoLMcP8fNZc64LJ53s&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA174,M1 |year=1884 |pages=175-179 |accessdate=2008-09-08] This mine extended under Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania, then exited to a trestle over a ravine, to re-enter another underground mine section in Carrick. [cite book |title=Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 1886 |url=http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/pageol&CISOPTR=42626&CISOSHOW=41046&REC=6 |pages=175-176 |year=1887 |accessdate=2008-09-07] This mine connected with the Bausman Mine in Spiketown, now Carrick, and was still operational in 1899. [cite web |last=Schellenberg |first=F.Z. |title=The Longest Mine-Haulage |url=http://www.aimehq.org/search/docs/Volume%20029/029-15.pdf |volume=XXIX |year=1899|accessdate=2008-09-08] Coal was tranferred from Spiketown to the mine entrance on St. Patrick Street by a steam locomotive that ran undeground. The coal from the mine was transferred to the Whitehall Branch using an inclined plane railroad. Although the incline is not longer in existence, its site is occupied by South Side Park.

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