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The land upriver from Brownsville along the eastern border of Greene County was acquired by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.[1] (YS&T) which designed and built the community, complete with a community hall (containing a movie theater and soda grille) on two sides of a small stream flowing into the Monongahela River on former farm lands near the borough of Carmichaels. The sale, transport and consumption of alcohol was banned by the company and strictly enforced by the company police. Alcohol was widely available just outside the town boundary in an area called "Jew Hill". The mine was located within the town boundary - the original shaft, tipple and loading docks were along the river. A book published in 1980 by resident Robert Korcheck details the history of the town. At one time, Youngstown Sheet and Tube was the largest steel company in the nation.[5] The company established the first hospital in Greene County that treated miners and their families. Housing was provided for the physician. A local elementary school of eight grades was built within the community as well as a Catholic Church and later a Presbyterian Church. A swimming pool was constructed in 1950 funded by the community with the cooperation of the company. The mine, established[when?] outside the town, was one of many large mines atop the Pittsburgh Coal Seam on the west bank of the Monongahela River.[1] It was operated as a subsidiary under the Buckeye Coal Company and grew and benefited as being directly on the railroad route running upriver (south) to West Virginia[1] and was able to load both river coal barges and freight trains with its output. It is thought by some to have been the largest coal mine in the United States in 1919, and was rated at being the second most productive in Greene County in the 1940s[1] war years. The mine operated nearly 70 years, shutting down production in 1986, and was sealed (safed) 2–3 years[1] later.

9.	“Nemacolin: the mine, the community, 1917-1950” by Robert A. Korcheck, 1980, 217 pages.