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English: The Wolfpit Mine, a coal mine in Pike County, Kentucky, in the United States in February 1927.
McKinney Steel broke ground on the Wolfpit Mine, located near the confluence of Marrowbone Creek and the Left Fork of Wolfpit Branch, in September 1917. In 1918, it built 60 houses there for its employees, which became the community of Wolfpit, Kentucky. The company paid the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to extend its road 3.5 miles (5.6 km) up Greasy Creek to allow coal to be transported from the mine. At its height, Wolfpit had 185 company-built and -owned homes, and a company-built and -operated elementary school. In time, the Wolfpit had two mine shafts running.At its height in 1922, the Wolfpit Mine was producing 40,000 short tons (36,000 t) of coal a month. By the summer of 1926, the lower vein of coal at the mine had been exhausted. In September 1928, the company permanently closed the Wolfpit Mine, laying off 1,000 men. |
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| Source | https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015080398723?urlappend=%3Bseq=232%3Bownerid=13510798900883631-236 |
| Author | "Wolfpit Mine of the McKinney Steel Co." Coal Age, February 3, 1927, p. 206 |
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