Hillman Coal and Coke Company

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Hillman Coal and Coke Company
Industry Mining
Founded Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Successor Calgon Carbon
Products Coal
Website hillmancompany.com/history

The Hillman Coal and Coke Company was a bituminous coal mining company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [1] The company was formed by John Hartwell Hillman Sr. [2] He established the Hillman Coal and Coke Company, and J. H. Hillman & Sons, which was eventually run by his three sons. [3] The Hillman Coal and Coke Company later became Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical, and it is now Calgon Carbon.

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The company built coal patch towns in the following locations:

Mines

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References

  1. ↑ Mines, United States Bureau of (1940). Gibson Mine of the Hillman Coal and Coke Company.
  2. ↑ Rick Sebak (May 17, 2017). "Remembering Henry Hillman". Pittsburgh Magazine.
  3. ↑ "About Elsie Hillman". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  4. 1 2 Chris DellaMea. "A Scrapbook of Appalachian Coal Towns".
  5. ↑ Hillman Coal and Coke, Annual Report, 1919. The town and mine were founded by United Coal Corporation. United Coal changed its name to Hillman Coal and Coke in May 1919, according to the company's Annual Report for that year, in Yale University Library. The 1919 Hillman Annual Report also indicated that the coal mine in the neighboring town of Boswell, operating under the subsidiary Merchants Coal, was also a Hillman concern,
  6. ↑ "Alicia Mine No. 2 Tipple". November 14, 1944.
  7. ↑ Bob Cupp (May 4, 2012). "Mining memories".
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