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Village of Shoaf
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Village of Shoaf
What makes Shoaf specal today is that is perhaps the best remaining example of a patch from the era when "coal was king and coke was queen". Many of the company houses are still intact and the character of the community is somewhat preserved. And as important, the behive coke ovens are still in remarkable shape. The last commercial production of coke anywhere using the beehive process was in these ovens in 1972, thus closing the final chapter of the coal and coke era in the region. In earlier days, the region literarally had tens of thousands of coke ovens, and the sky at night would be orange with fires of the ovens. This is an attraction only to those interested in the coal and coke era. Some effort will be required to view many of the relics. Shoaf gives us the one of the best possible glimpses of the region's industrial past. It, too, may soon fade into the mist of history. |
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Built
in 1904 by the H.C. Frick Company, the Village of Shoaf is a small
coal mining town (known as a "patch") which supported
the local coal mine and the coke ovens the mine supplied. Shoaf
itself was quite typical of a patch in the heyday of the