At the end of Shelly, look up and down the hill and you will see yellow markers of a 16” gas line that now occupies the former path of the J & L Coal Incline. The 1,300-foot incline carried coal from the American Mine near the top of the Slopes to J & L’s iron making facility on the Flats below. It was in operation from 1854 until sometime prior to 1930. Ahead is a large grassy field known as Monongahela Park.
Shelly St. Cont’d.
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