Coal mining was dirty work. But coal miners enjoyed a perc not available to many occupations – the wash house. There coal miners disrobed from their street apparel, then donned the mining clothes which hung from baskets in the eaves of the wash house. A coal stove heated the wash house so wet mining clothes would dry before the next shift began. It’s now a grassy area on a trail leading to the river in the Franklin Townsite section of the Green River Gorge State Parks ownership.