Hillman Coal and Coke Company explained

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

The Hillman Coal and Coke Company was a bituminous coal mining company based in Pittsburgh, PA.[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] Hillman Coal and Coke Company later became Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical, and it is now Calgon Carbon.

The company built coal patch towns in the following locations:

Mines

Notes and References

  1. Book: Mines, United States Bureau of . Gibson Mine of the Hillman Coal and Coke Company . 1940 . en.
  2. Pittsburgh Magazine . Remembering Henry Hillman . May 17, 2017 . Rick Sebak.
  3. Web site: About Elsie Hillman. University of Pittsburgh. 28 March 2022.
  4. Web site: A Scrapbook of Appalachian Coal Towns . Chris DellaMea .
  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. Web site: Alicia Mine No. 2 Tipple . November 14, 1944.
  7. Web site: Mining memories . May 4, 2012 . Bob Cupp.

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