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| DESCRIPTION: The Crows Nest Mine at Bovard (Crows Nest), Hempfield Township, is located at the end of First Street, along a tributary of Jacks Run. Remains ca.1994 include the machine shop, supply house, and tipple. The machine shop is a large one-story building with common-bond red-brick walls, a gable roof, a monitor, and a brick chimney. It measures 100' x 30'. The window openings are spanned by shallow brick arches; the gable roof is of metal with brick chimney and monitor. The building has been altered with one wall replaced with sheet metal and the construction of a large concrete addition. The supply house is also a one-story red-brick building with a gable roof. It measures 82' x 30' and rests on a concrete foundation. The coal tipple has been enclosed by a corrugated metal building. The abandoned railroad bed of the Pennsylvania R.R. Bovard Branch Line, off the Mainline, that serviced the mine can still be seen. The Bovard Coal Processing Company utilizes the tipple and a new metal building (ca.1994) to wash bituminous coal obtained from various coal reclamation projects in the area. Most of the area is now overgrown with brush and trees. The Keystone Concrete Pipe Company, started in 1959 by Adam Eidemiller, Inc., produces concrete pipe in the machine shop (ca.1994). The supply house is vacant; the office building is owned by a chemical company. |
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| Crows Nest Mine Tipple Crows Nest Mine & Tipple, just east of Bovard (Crows Nest), on the Bovard Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Hempfield Township, Westmoreland Co., PA, U.S.A. (Photo courtesy of Charles W. Kocur and The Bovard 75th Anniversary Committee, Bovard, Pa.) |
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| Coal Recovery Plant Adam Eidemiller Inc's Bovard Coal Recovery Plant, which occupies the site of the old Crows Nest Mine, as it looked in ca.1985. (Photo by J. R. Downs, courtesy of the "Tribune-Review", August 18, 1985.) |
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