Standard Shaft, Pennsylvania

Standard Shaft is located in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It is a community located near Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.

History

Standard Shaft, sometimes just called Shaft by the locals, refers to the community that had in roots in the Standard Shaft Mine operation. It was founded in 1886 by the H. C. Frick Coke Company.

Around 1932, the H. C. Frick Coke Company closed and abandoned the Calumet Mine, located in nearby Calumet, Pennsylvania and sent a number of the miners to the Standard Shaft Mine near Mount Pleasant, and laid off the rest of the coal miners to fend for themselves, with no compensation or means of support.^[1]

References

External links

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-292, "Town of Standard Shaft"

Municipalities and communities of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
County seat: Greensburg
Cities	Arnold Greensburg Jeannette Latrobe Lower Burrell Monessen New Kensington
Boroughs	Adamsburg Arona Avonmore Bolivar Delmont Derry Donegal East Vandergrift Export Hunker Hyde Park Irwin Laurel Mountain Ligonier Madison Manor Mount Pleasant Murrysville New Alexandria New Florence New Stanton North Belle Vernon North Irwin Oklahoma Penn Scottdale Seward Smithton South Greensburg Southwest Greensburg Sutersville Trafford‡ Vandergrift West Leechburg West Newton Youngstown Youngwood
Townships	Allegheny Bell Cook Derry Donegal East Huntingdon Fairfield Hempfield Ligonier Loyalhanna Mount Pleasant North Huntingdon Penn Rostraver St. Clair Salem Sewickley South Huntingdon Unity Upper Burrell Washington
CDPs	Bradenville Calumet Collinsburg Crabtree Fellsburg Grapeville Harrison City Herminie Hostetter Lawson Heights Level Green Loyalhanna Lynnwood-Pricedale‡ Mammoth Millwood Norvelt St. Vincent College Slickville Webster Wyano Yukon
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Coordinates: 40°09′53″N 79°31′59″W / 40.16472°N 79.53306°W / 40.16472; -79.53306