Slickville Historic District | |
Location | Roughly bounded by Greenburg and Second Ave. and Delmont, Court, Cottage, and Fred Sts., Salem Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°27′27″N79°31′23″W / 40.45750°N 79.52306°W |
Area | 62 acres (25 ha) |
Built | 1916–1923 |
Built by | Thomas Tressler, J.A. Truxall |
MPS | Bituminous Coal and Coke Resources of Pennsylvania MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 94000522 [1] |
Added to NRHP | June 3, 1994 |
The Slickville Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Salem Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]
This district encompasses ninety contributing buildings and one contributing structure that are located in the unincorporated village of Slickville. The Cambria Steel Company built this mining town between 1916 and 1923. The contributing resources include workers' and managers' housing, four utilitarian mine-related buildings, a church, a school, a pump house, and a company store. The company-built community was later acquired by Bethlehem Steel, which operated Slick Mine No. 91 after 1923. [2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]
Slickville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 372 at the 2000 census.
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