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In 2008, former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell announced that the Kiski Junction would be awarded a state grant of $4 million to extend the line 9 miles north of Schenley to the mouth of Crooked Creek. The line was extended to serve the Logansport Mine (operated by Rosebud Mining Co.) in Logansport.
Kittanning (/ k ɪ ˈ t æ n ɪ ŋ / ki-TAN-ing) is a borough in and the county seat of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. [3] It is situated 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Pittsburgh , along the east bank of the Allegheny River .
The Middle Kittanning is at about surface level in the valleys of Monday Creek and Sunday Creek in southeastern Ohio, but become much deeper going east. Many towns and villages in southeast Ohio grew up around the mining of the Middle Kittanning coal vein. Many of these are known as the "Little Cities of Black Diamonds."
Kittanning Township is located in central Armstrong County several miles east of the Allegheny River and does not border the borough of Kittanning, the county seat.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 30.8 square miles (79.8 km 2), of which 30.7 square miles (79.5 km 2) is land and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 0.27%,
The Kittanning Path was a major east-west Native American trail that crossed the Allegheny Mountains barrier ridge connecting the Susquehanna River valleys in the center of Pennsylvania to the highlands of the Appalachian Plateau and thence to the western lands beyond drained by the Ohio River.
Pennsylvania’s history with coal mining dates back to the 1700s, and acid mine drainage from abandoned sites is the No. 1 water pollution issue statewide, according to the state Department of ...
Most of these mines were dip-up mines mining the Lower Kittanning coal. Strip mining was done in the watershed from the 1930s to 1977. The D. G. Wertz Coal Company and the Kettle Creek Corporation were two companies that strip-mined coal in the area during this period. [8] The Lower Kittanning Coal was mined down to a depth of 60 feet (18 m). [12]
The company would open multiple mines in the area with the first one being Eureka. The most famous mine was a 36" thick section of the Lower Kittanning seam, sometimes locally known as the Dagus seam. J.H. Steele would open the "Company Store," carrying mining supplies, clothing, footwear, groceries and feed for farm animals.