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View of the Beechwood mine buildings.
'Eckhart mine located between Cumberland and Frostburg, Maryland. This was the first railroad shipping mine in America. it was opened in 1842 when the B&O railroad reached Cumberland, Maryland's George's Creek Coal field. This mine and James Otis Watson's mine opened at Fairmont, Virginia in 1852 were the nucleuses of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company. This was the first mine in America to be located on a railway.'
Coal mine facilities on a hillside.
'American Coal Company formed in 1852, James Otis Watson, President. First bituminous coal mine to ship commercial coal west of the Alleghany Mountains. Gabled home in the background was the Ogden home.'