Carbon township

The Minersville Coke Ovens

Minersville Coke Ovens, looking west down a line of the ruins of coke ovensPhotograph by the Wikimedia Commons contributor Generic1139, 2014. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; reused with credit, and the same licence travels with any derivative. Minersville Coke Ovens.jpg

A line of ruined coke ovens at Minersville, looking west along them. Coke ovens baked coal into fuel for iron furnaces, and these are what is left. Photographed in September 2014.

Checked against the record. The description names neither county nor township. The photograph's own coordinates do: the Census geocoder returns Huntingdon County, Carbon township.

Sources

Wikimedia Commons: Minersville Coke Ovens.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0 (2014)

Checked 2026-09-01 · Wikimedia Commons

← All stories from Carbon township

Have something to add to this story, or a photograph of it? Send it here →

More from Carbon township

Broad Top City borough, Broad Top Strike

Did you know? By July 11, 1920, about three thousand bituminous coal miners in the Broad Top field were idle. The…

Carbon township, Minersville Coke Ovens

A mile east of Coalmont, on the north side of Route 913, flat ground between Millers Run and Shoups Run holds what is…

Also about industry

elsewhere in the county, The stone company store at Main and Cliff

The Rockhill Iron and Coal Company store stands at the corner of Main and Cliff streets in Robertsdale, opposite the…

elsewhere in the county, The company office that became the post office

The Rockhill Iron and Coal Company office stands on the east side of Main Street in Robertsdale, just south of the East…

Search all the stories →