Cameron Becomes Glen Burn

Glen Burn was a new name for an older colliery. The News-Dispatch's 1964 history dated the order changing the name to July 3, 1940. Until then its account followed the operation as Cameron, with earlier mining, leases and a newly constructed breaker already behind it.

The name change followed an interruption and a shift in control. The retrospective said operations began again on February 1, 1940, after a one-month closure, under the Susquehanna Collieries Company. It also reported a change in union affiliation from the Progressive Mine Union to the United Mine Workers. These were related transitions around the renamed operation, not the beginning of coal mining at the site.

The paper went on to describe the Maysville slopes as a principal source of raw coal for Glen Burn, with the first opened in 1942 and the second begun in 1943. The renamed operation therefore appears in its account before that later development. The July 1940 date marks the change of name, not the start of mining or the earlier breaker project.