History & local legend
Winburne grew around coal mining and the railroad, with Sommerville & Company operating mines and a general store. The former rail grade at Coalward Street supplies the setting for a local story about a woman carrying a baby.
She is said to walk back and forth along the tracks, searching for her husband. The explanation given in the tale is that mother and child died together in a train wreck and never completed their journey.
Sources
- The Shadowlands, Winburne / Coalward Street, woman holding her child and searching for her husband
- Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, coal mining in Winburne and Sommerville & Company
- Sanborn Map Company, Winburne, September 1911, sheet 2, coal tipple, railroad and Sommerville general store
- OpenStreetMap, Coalward Street
- OpenStreetMap, abandoned railroad crossing the named street
