Editing Windber, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
Windber was established in 1897 as a [[company town]] for nearby coal mines in the vicinity of Johnstown. The establishment was overseen by coal barons Charles and [[Edward Julius Berwind]], owners of the [[Berwind Corporation]]; the name "Windber" simply switches the order of the two syllables in the family name "Berwind".<ref>{{cite book|last=Espenshade|first=A. Howry|title=Pennsylvania Place Names|url=https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniaplac00espe/page/237/|year=1925|publisher=[[Pennsylvania State University|Pennsylvania State College]]|location=[[State College, Pennsylvania|State College, PA]]|page=237}}</ref> The Berwind-White Coal Mining Company imported workers from eastern and southern Europe and exploited ethnic divisions in the area (which had been settled by Germans and Irish in the 19th century).

On Good Friday 1922 during the [[UMW General coal strike (1922)|UMW General coal strike]], coal miners walked out of the mines in Windber and several nearby locations in Somerset County, attempting to force the mine owners to recognize their [[United Mine Workers]] union, as well as accurately weigh the coal they mined.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |author=Kanarek, Harold K. |year=1975 |title=The Pennsylvania Anthracite Strike of 1922 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20090945 |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |volume=99 |issue=2 |pages=207–225 }}</ref><ref name=":1" />
[[File:UMWA Strike Meeting, Bantley Place, Scalp Level, PA 1922.jpg|thumb|right|Mass meeting of more than 3,000 striking coal miners held near Windber, PA in September 1922]]
The company employed legal tactics (the United States Supreme Court decided two lawsuits) as well as strike-breakers, but the miners received considerable favorable national publicity and local support and held out until the end of the following summer.<ref name=":1">historic marker at http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-2CF</ref><ref name=":0" /> However, the UMW successfully organized the mines during 1933, after the [[Great Depression]] led to the election of President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]].

The Vintage Electric Streetcar Company, popularly called the "trolley graveyard", is located in Windber. The private scrapyard houses a number of [[PCC streetcar]]s and other transit equipment from systems like the [[MBTA Green Line]], which are sold for reuse or scrapped for parts.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/news/untagged/2015/09/06/why-are-old-green-line-trolleys-wasting-away-in-rural-pennsylvania |title=Why are old Green Line trolleys wasting away in rural Pennsylvania? |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=September 6, 2015 |first=Amanda |last=Hoover |access-date=September 7, 2017}}</ref>

The [[Windber Historic District]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1991.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>