Standard Shaft is located in
Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Mount Pleasant Township is a township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 10,101. Mount Pleasant Township should not be confused with the Borough of Mount Pleasant, which is a ...
, United States. It is a community located near
Mount Pleasant.
History
Standard Shaft, sometimes just called ''Shaft'' by the locals, refers to the community that had in roots in the Standard Shaft Mine operation. It was founded in 1886 by the
H. C. Frick Coke Company.
''Circa'' 1932, the
H. C. Frick Coke Company closed and abandoned the Calumet Mine, located in nearby
Calumet
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and sent a number of the miners to the Standard Shaft Mine near Mount Pleasant, and laid off the rest of the coal miners, leaving them to fend for themselves, with no compensation or means of support.
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Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Populated places established in 1886
1886 establishments in Pennsylvania