Kehota Mine Tipple, McCuneville
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We Need Your Help to Save a Little Cities Landmark: The Ward Building of New Straitsville
September 20, 2022
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We Need Your Help to Save a Little Cities Landmark. We have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase the historic Ward Building in New Straitsville! We have a plan to restore the building to its former beauty and make it into a public heritage center, and we need $5,000 to reach our first fundraising goal.
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The Kehota mine operated during the WW I period of 1917-1919 and for several years thereafter. It was located in Dixie Hollow on the opposite side of the hollow from Dixie road. The concrete foundations for this tipple are still in existence or at least they were a few years ago. The powder magazine where the black powder was stored is also still in existence. From the open end it looks like a road culvert. The strip mining operation created what was called Big Pit and Little Pit. In a time before swimming pools Big Pit was used by the locals as a place to swim.