Aultman/10 Commandments
Who We Are
Aultman, another coal patch town, began with two parallel streets of miners' homes. Established in 1912, in southwestern Center Township, it was named for a nearby stream, Aultman's Run. The mines shut down in the late 1920s.
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A row of houses along Rt. 286, just outside of town, is alternately known as the "10 Commandments" and as "No. 5," the numerical designation of a former mine in that area.
Two mine shafts were located in Aultman and another was on the outskirts of town.
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The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad extended a line to the village in 1912. The tracks served the town's coal tipple, running behind the 10 Commandments and on to the Jacksonville Railroad Station as well as other mines in Coal Run and McIntyre.
Aultman had its own school for grades 1-8. Then students were sent to Laura Lamar. The original elementary school burned down and a new one was erected, but it was closed in a cost-cutting move in the 1960s.
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Aultman's R&P-sponsored baseball team, the Terriers, played at a diamond constructed following World War II, near the town's old water tank.
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The company store was the town's lifeline. Miners' paychecks were often spent in one fell swoop on food, clothes, books and even furniture.
The store closed in the 1950s and soon was razed, its wood and stone salvaged to construct a farmhouse.
When Aultman's mines were shuttered, the train, instead of hauling coal, transported men to work at nearby McIntyre
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