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Carbon township

The Minersville Coke Ovens

Minersville Coke Ovens, looking west down a line of the ruins of coke ovens
Minersville Coke Ovens, looking west down a line of the ruins of coke ovensPhotograph by the Wikimedia Commons contributor Generic1139, 2014. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; reused with credit, and the same licence travels with any derivative. Minersville Coke Ovens.jpg

A line of ruined coke ovens at Minersville, looking west along them. Coke ovens baked coal into fuel for iron furnaces, and these are what is left. Photographed in September 2014.

What the fact check changed. The description names neither county nor township. The photograph's own coordinates do: the Census geocoder returns Huntingdon County, Carbon township.

Sources

  1. Wikimedia Commons: Minersville Coke Ovens.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0 (2014)

Checked 2026-09-01 · Wikimedia Commons

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