Nemacolin, Pennsylvania
| Nemacolin, Pennsylvania | |
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Greene |
| Township | Cumberland |
| Coordinates | 39°52′40″N 79°55′30″W / 39.87778°N 79.92500°WCoordinates: 39°52′40″N 79°55′30″W / 39.87778°N 79.92500°W |
| Area | 1.6 sq mi (4 km2) |
| - land | 1.4 sq mi (4 km2) |
| - water | 0.1 sq mi (0 km2) |
| Population | 937 (2010) |
| Density | 670/sq mi (259/km2) |
| company town | 1917 |
| Timezone | EST (UTC-4) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-5) |
| Area code | 724 |
| FIPS code | 42-52968 |
 Location of Nemacolin in Greene County
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Nemacolin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded as a company town around the workings of a Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company owned and operated coal mine in 1917. The name reflects a noted Amerindian ally Chief Nemacolin, who showed the Virginia and Pennsylvania settlers how to cross the successive Allegheny barrier ridges via the Cumberland Narrows and the Nemacolin Trail — which Braddock's Expedition widened into a wagon road through the mountains. The population of the CDP was 937 at the 2010 census.
The land upriver from Brownsville along the eastern border of Greene County was acquired by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. (YS&T) which planned, zoned, populated, and built the community, complete with a movie theater, tennis courts, amusement hall (in the fashion of the times in blue-collar company towns, part pool hall, part beer garden), and swimming pool near the borough of Carmichaels. At one time, Youngstown Sheet and Tube was the largest steel company in the nation. Establishing the town well after the United Mine Workers flexed their muscles in the strikes of the 1890s–1900s and after its riot troubles in Youngstown in 1916, it is also likely the company had a hand in establishing the local school and one or more churches and likely issued invitations and recruited the medical practitioners operating the various health clinics.
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