Marianna Historic District

Marianna is a company-built coal mining town on a hillside above Ten Mile Creek in Washington County, Pennsylvania, with most of its buildings constructed between 1906 and 1912 for the Marianna mine. Rows of mostly yellow brick houses branch off Beeson Avenue, the main street, and are arranged around the mine, company store, schoolhouse and other institutional buildings. The district is significant for its company housing, which reflects both the economics of mining operations and the efforts of coal operators to improve living conditions. It is linked to the Jones family, who developed the mine with the aim of building one of the most up-to-date plants in the world. Marianna was incorporated as a borough in 1910, and the district is notable for its unusually good integrity, since its brick construction resisted the re-siding common in other mining towns. Its uniform architecture and compact layout make it one of the best preserved examples of a Western Pennsylvania mining town.