Eckhart Mines is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Allegany County, Maryland, United States.

The Eckhart Mines' location here was the first bituminous coal mine developed in the Georges Creek Valley coalfield, because this is where the National Road (now U.S. Route 40 Alternate) crossed the coal outcrop.

The Eckhart operation was the first commercial coal company in the United States.

[7] A history of Allegany County, page 448,[citation needed] says that "'Eckhart Mines', was a well laid out village 1789, July 12.

This mining village is about one and a half miles from Frostburg, is on the Eckhart Branch of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad in the basin of the Big Savage and Dan's Mt.