It would be remiss of me, while on the topic of the Connellsville Coke Region, to fail to mention the centennial of the death of Henry Clay Frick.Frick, a native West Overton, was a little shy of 70 when he died at his palatial Fifth Avenue home in New York City.Having amassed one of the ...
In the land of coal and coke, the H.C. Frick Company reigned supreme, which is not to say the company had the entire Connellsville Coke Region, stretching from Latrobe to Fairchance, to itself.There was, for instance, the Oliver and Snyder Steel Company, which operated, early in the 20th ...
I suppose it takes a half generation or so for the collective memory to slip. I recently asked the person I was sitting with at a high school basketball game if she recalled the nickname formerly used by Connellsville sports teams.Today, itĢƵ the Falcons. Before the Falcons, it was ... ...