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Feb 21, 2023 · The Steel City has been through a lot. It has lost and regained its identity. It still has a remembrance of its past steel industries. It pays homage to the history and workers that built the city and economy through teams like the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers and the Duquesne and Monongahela inclines.
Dec 7, 2022 · In the early- to mid-1980s, however, that is exactly what happened. U.S. Steel began to diversify its business holdings, and steel mills throughout Western Pennsylvania began to shut down, one after another. The rise and fall of steel in Pittsburgh is chronicled in Spiegel’s new documentary, “City of Steel.”
The Duquesne Plant came into being on June 4, 1886, when a small group of Pittsburgh investors began construction of a small Bessemer converter shop and a blooming mill to produce rails for the nation's railroads in their march across the country.
Dec 5, 2022 · Like anyone who grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1940s and ’50s, Bruce Spiegel recalls steel mills as a big presence in his life. His family lived in Greenfield, on a street overlooking U.S. Steel ...
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Historic American Engineering Record, creatorCarnegie, AndrewCarnegie Steel CompanyU.S. Steel Corporation- steel mills- steel industry- Pennsylvania -- Allegheny County -- Duquesne- See also HAER PA-115 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 211 through 226).- Significance: The construction of the Duquesne Steel Works marked an important event in the movement toward integrated steel producing ventures in the Monongahela Valley of western Pennsylvania....- Survey number: HAER PA-115-D- Building/structure dates: 1886 Initial ConstructionPhoto(s): 10Photo Caption Page(s): 1Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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Mar 26, 2024 · DUQUESNE, Pa. — Pittsburgh’s Union Railroad is buying 13 acres of the former U.S. Steel Duquesne Works to develop a transload facility, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. The railroad purchased the land from the Regional Industrial Development Corp. for $400,000 to develop a facility for truck-to-rail and rail-to-truck transloading, according to the development agency’s president, Don ...
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Apr 5, 2024 · The Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, PA, part of U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley Works, the last integrated steel mill in the Pittsburgh area. Mon Valley Works currently employs 3,000 people, a tiny fraction of the tens of thousands who once worked in the region’s steel mills. Photo by Tony Dutzik | TPIN
