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Post by galsal on Mar 25, 2010 15:38:45 GMT -6
Does anyone know where the Star Coal Mine was located? In one of my books it says on Spring Hill.
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Post by John on Mar 26, 2010 5:39:17 GMT -6
The Star Coal Mine was located in Kangley.
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Post by galsal on Mar 26, 2010 6:33:19 GMT -6
Was it the one by the Mackey cemetary?
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Post by John on Mar 26, 2010 20:48:40 GMT -6
No, it was the one just west of Kangley where they cleaned up the slag pile a few years back.
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Post by bluejay201 on Mar 27, 2010 3:56:38 GMT -6
No, it was the one just west of Kangley where they cleaned up the slag pile a few years back. Where west of Kangley? Thanks, Joanie |
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Post by galsal on Mar 27, 2010 4:58:08 GMT -6
If you are traveling North through Kangley, before you get to the stop sign to turn on Oakley, there is a road (don't know the #) that turns west. There was a mine along the tracks on the south side. We used to go berry picking along those tracks, and at the end of that road where it comes to a "T", there was a one room schoolhouse on the N. side. My cousins went to it.
I'm just curious why the location was called Spring Hill since there was no spring in the area.
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Post by DumDave on Mar 27, 2010 9:50:10 GMT -6
What was the name of the school house?
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Post by John on Mar 27, 2010 10:08:14 GMT -6
There was a spring just north of there years ago. I don't know if it's still flowing or not. I remember the ice cold, crystal clear water coming out of the ground.
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Post by galsal on Mar 27, 2010 11:50:17 GMT -6
DD, I don't remember the name. It could have been the Eagle school. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's what it was called. They built the new school NW of where this one was, then tore this one down.
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Post by bluejay201 on Mar 28, 2010 22:52:17 GMT -6
I don't think it was Eagle....it was a "Kangley" name.
Kraft or Kroft....
The La Salle Co. Historical Society was working on a book about the old schools....don't know if they ever finished?
Joanie
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Post by galsal on Mar 29, 2010 4:52:02 GMT -6
I'm sure you're right about the name, bluejay. I think there is a book out about one room schoolhouses in LaSalle Co. There was an article about it in the Times last year.
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Post by galsal on Mar 31, 2010 7:29:32 GMT -6
In today's Times Press there is a story about the book. It is supposed to be released by mid-summer. In the article they list a lot of areas with one-room schoolhouses that they still need information on. I could not find anything that I recognized as the one being in Kangley.
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Post by bluejay201 on Apr 1, 2010 1:54:54 GMT -6
Thanks for mentioning the article, I was going to read it, then forgot..another senior moment. mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=400890&query=one room school I thought we sent them information about the Dickerman school. That school was "destroyed" in the Cyclone of 1903. It was replaced by the McKinley school, made of brick. Blackman....I thought it was Blackwell, again could be another senior moment. I thought we sent them information about that school and the difference in the last name. Seems to me this school existed about the same time as the East and West Mackey schools. There was another school, on the same street as the old Coca-Cola place was located, or near there. The building was moved. Streator expanded so quickly, we had one room schools one year and were putting up two story buildings the next. I don't know much about the early schools in our area. There were different types of schools, "graded", private, public... But, I don't understand the difference. I think St. Mary's started in 1878 or 1879. The nuns were listed in the 1880 census. Father Michael J. Byrne asked the Sisters of Mercy to come over from Ottawa and start a school. They bought a building, sometimes referred to as "Cahill's Barracks", and opened a "convent" school. It was called a "convent" school, because some children stayed/lived there during the week, and went home on weekends. The nuns took down that building in a couple of years and put up a two story school. They owned the school, it was not owned by the parish. Joanie |
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Post by nerddad on Apr 20, 2010 9:08:15 GMT -6
The Star Coal Mine was located in Kangley. technically, there was more than one Star Coal mine, it looks like the number 1 was where you are referring. There also was one farther north along the river just south of the Heenanville mines, called the number 2. Lots of good stuff can be found here: www.isgs.uiuc.edu/maps-data-pub/coal-maps/county-index.shtml |
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Post by Job on Apr 21, 2010 16:58:07 GMT -6
The Star Coal Mine was located in Kangley. technically, there was more than one Star Coal mine, it looks like the number 1 was where you are referring. There also was one farther north along the river just south of the Heenanville mines, called the number 2. Lots of good stuff can be found here: www.isgs.uiuc.edu/maps-data-pub/coal-maps/county-index.shtmlThanks for the site reference. I have had a good time looking at it. |
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