Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Nemacolin, PA

Nemacolin is an unincorporated census-designated place in Cumberland Township, Greene County, on the west bank of the Monongahela River near Carmichaels.

Nemacolin was built from scratch in 1917 as a company town by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company for the workers of its Buckeye Coal Company mine.

The town is named for Chief Nemacolin, the Native American guide whose trail across the Alleghenies was later widened into the wagon road used by Braddock's Expedition.

The Buckeye mine was thought by some to be the largest coal mine in the United States in 1919, and it ranked as Greene County's second most productive mine during the 1940s war years.

Youngstown Sheet and Tube built a complete model town for its miners, with a movie theater, tennis courts, an amusement hall, a swimming pool, and a company store.

Local histories recount that Nemacolin's hospital - the first in Greene County - was built in a single day in March 1918, just in time for the Spanish flu pandemic.

After nearly 70 years of operation, the Buckeye mine shut down production in 1986 and was sealed a few years later.

Nemacolin's population has fallen from 1,034 in 2000 to 937 in 2010 and 826 at the 2020 census, and the 2000 census counted 401 households in the CDP.

Richard Trumka, the longtime president of the AFL-CIO, was born and raised in Nemacolin and attended school in neighboring Carmichaels.

Nemacolin is served by the Carmichaels Area School District, whose schools are in the borough of Carmichaels just up the hill from the old coal town.