This web site was developed in partial fulfillment for the requirements of a master's degree in history from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. The study covers the period from 1910, when the town of McIntyre, Pennsylvania, was founded to 1947, when it was sold by the Rochester and Pittsburgh Company along with sixteen other remaining Company towns and their water rights to a local salvage company for the sum of $890,000. It is hoped that this assemblage of documents, memories, and information will convey a taste of the everyday life of the town and its residents during the first half of the 20th century. [...] McIntyre, Pennsylvania, was one of a number of coal mining company towns developed by the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company in Indiana County, western Pennsylvania, in the early part of the 20th century. During this period the United States was becoming a major industrial and world power due in part to the presence and mining of coal and other abundant natural resources in the country. Coal was used to produce coke for the steel industry, to heat homes, to run railroads, and as fuel for many industries. Many unskilled European immigrants, wanting to leave behind a life of poverty that promised little or no chance of upward mobility, were attracted to jobs in the mines and settled with their families in a number of western Pennsylvania towns. McIntyre is representative of the many coal mining company towns that flourished in western Pennsylvania during this period. The patterns of daily life found in McIntyre could easily be superimposed over other mining towns and, although it would not be an identical match, there would be many similarities. [self-description]