Terminal Coal Company

The Terminal Coal Company was a coal mining company in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It operated mines in the Pittsburgh Coalfield, including mines in Becks Run and Horning, Pennsylvania. Unusually for that time in Pennsylvania, it hired African-American miners for some of its work.[1][2]

References

  1. "Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company". TIME (Feb 28). 1928-02-27. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
  2. Smith Brown, Eliza (2007). African American Historic Sites Survey of Allegheny County. DIANE Publishing Inc. pp. 178–179. ISBN 9781422314906.


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