Hocking Valley Coal Hocking, Athens, Perry Counties, Ohio

Old Coal Mine Communities

Jobs, Ohio William Job, native of England, owner and  founder of  the Jobs Coal Mines in the Hocking Valley died April, 1931 at the age of 88.  A few photos are almost all that remains of Jobs, the town that once boomed around the two Morris Mines in Northwestern Hocking county.  The company store and the Jobs School, along with hundreds of company owned homes have disapeared as if they were never there. The Jobs post office in operation 1890-1924 is also gone.

Jobs Ohio Courtesy of the Mahn Center, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Houses at Jobs Ohio Courtesy of the Mahn Center, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Jobs Children Courtesy of the Mahn Center, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Jobs Schoolhouse Courtesy of the Mahn Center, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Jobs Mine, R.R. Tracks, and Company Houses Courtesy of the Mahn Center, Alden Library, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Older couple, 1920 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Eclipse, Ohio

These company houses were built in Eclipse, OH.  Constructed by the Hocking Valley Coal Company,  their No. 4 mine was at Eclipse.

The old company store at Eclipse, Ohio.  The town has been granted a new lease on life as a tourist stop along the Hocking-Adena bike trail.

The Eclipse Company Town is just two miles north of Athens and Ohio University off of US 33 and Johnson Road near The Plains.  The Eclipse Company Town was built by the Hocking Valley Coal Company between 1900 and 1902. Operated by the Johnson Brothers, for whom Johnson Road was named, the Company Town sits atop Eclipse Mine #4 of the Hocking Valley Coal Company. Miners and their families once lived in the little company houses, which form two parallel rows. Eclipse photos property of/used with the permission of Chris Dellamea  www.coalcampusa.com .

New Straitsville, Ohio New Straitsville, Ohio,  1901 In 1870, the New Straitsville Mining Company established the community of New Straitsville, a small community approximately fifty miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio.  The town was to provide housing for the company's workers.  Over the next decade, the town grew quickly, exceeding four thousand people by 1880.  Most of the community's inhabitants worked in the New Straitsville Mining Company's coal mines. Photo from New Straitsville Public Library

More coal mining community history coming soon.

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