The pit was plugged in 1958, when all the coal mines formerly owned by Ronchamp were closed by the government utility, Électricité de France.

Three miner towns, a dormitory, and a reservoir of potable water were constructed around the mine pit in the interwar period.

A slag heap towards the north remained until the beginning of the 20th century, leaving behind two slabs of concrete and the floor of a no longer existent building.

The excavation of the pit was undertaken by the Éboulet Mining Company on December 14, 1851, with a cross-section of 6.6m × 2.5m with a pair of 2m × 2m extraction compartments.

On 1 August 1859, at 501 meters, the pit crossed a vein of coal 80 centimeters thick, which did not meet company standards.

[7] The pit was also outfitted with a new, more powerful ventilator, an air compressor, the only source of mechanical energy at the bottom of the mine, a lamp shop, and a "swimming pool" for the miners.

[10] By 1864, the Notre-Dame mine was working at full capacity, with 400 workers, of whom 90 were hewers producing up to 100 tons per day .

A master miner from an English-speaking country headed this project, but the mine suffered from faulty lining and poor reinforcement, necessitating numerous repairs and the abandonment of double-extraction.

[8] On 16 September 1867, all work was stopped in order to completely transform the mine facilities following a cable rupture.

[13] In 1871, a compressed air machine was used for the drilling of the southern passage at the bottom of the Notre-Dame pit, the first of its kind in France.

He believed that the reserves of usable coal were limited, but that there was potential value in Southeastern explorations, in the direction of the mine shaft of l'Espérance.

According to him, deepening the shaft another fifty meters and digging another gallery in that direction could prolong the life of the mine by another ten years.

[17] On 1 September 1880, a 10-meter chunk of the mine wall detached, crumbled, and crushed the receiving level, trapping two miners below.

[19] In 1892, a significant bed was discovered behind a rising stratum of rock, but two years later a number of flaws appeared.

[21] In 1922, the company decided to revisit an abandoned mass of coal with a width of 150 meters that had been left intact to serve as flood prevention for the more recent excavations.

[22] In 1944, the battles for liberation brought about the stoppage of the pumps of the Éboulet shaft and the build-up of water in the galleries.

[23][26] On September 28, 1981, at the instigation of the municipality of Ronchamp, a monument created by Bernard Poivey was erected and inaugurated on the foundation of the extraction shaft[27] 29.

[29] The Notre-Dame mine shaft is situated in the hamlet of Éboulet, fairly distant from the center of Ronchamp, where there were only a dozen houses in the mid-19th century.

Constructed of coated cinder blocks, fifteen of these houses had two stories, while the others had only a ground floor with a hip roof.