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Slickville Historic District

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Built
  
1916-1923

NRHP Reference #
  
94000522

Added to NRHP
  
3 June 1994

Architectural style
  
Other, Company Housing

Area
  
25 ha

Slickville Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by Greenburg and Second Ave. and Delmont, Court, Cottage and Fred Sts., Salem Township, Pennsylvania

Built by
  
Tressler, Thomas; Truxall, J.A.

MPS
  
Bituminous Coal and Coke Resources of Pennsylvania MPS

Slickville Historic District is a national historic district located at Salem Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 90 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the unincorporated village of Slickville. The company built mining town was built 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 community was originally developed by the Cambria Steel Company, and later acquired by Bethlehem Steel who operated Slick Mine No. 91 after 1923.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

Slickville Historic District Wikipedia


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