Beehive Kilns

[Frosty]

That's quite a read Scott! Thank you.

Frosty The Lucky.

[anvil]

I think the ones at Redstone and Cokedale both were active well into and a little beyond the mid 20th century. Basically they were for the steel industry centered around Pueblo, Co, and it was far more efficient to ship coke by rail than coal. 

[George N. M.]

According to wiki the Redstone coke ovens were only active from about 1899 to 1909 and the Cokedale ovens were last used in 1947.

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[anvil]

Hey, at least I was pretty close on the Cokedale ones. When I started smithing, Colter CarriageWorks was there(Cokedale). He had bought the whole town. Turley told me about him and I drove down to see him. I did some of my first work for him. He's the one who told me when they closed, but he very well could have confirmed your dates. That was a while back in time. 

I believe there were some coking ovens in the Colorado Springs area as well. Thinking the old Pikeview mine. 

[Scott NC]

  Here's one they actually rebuilt recently.  The highschool welding class had a part in it.  Cool.   I have developed a facination with these things.  They are a rabbit hole.  I found myself reading about the Edmund Fitzgerald....

http://ironoreheritage.com/carp-river-kiln-fund/

[anvil]

One of my fav Gorden Lightfoot songs.  

I think most of the coking ovens in Colorado and around Raton were owned by CF&I steel mill in Pueblo Colorado. If not owned outright by them, then they were the primary end user of the coke.