U.S. Steel Homestead Works, 160" Plate Mill, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA
Summary
See also HAER PA-301 for additional documentation. Includes drawings & written data.
See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 110 through 119).
Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel center in the United States for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Survey number: HAER PA-200-F
Building/structure dates: 1944 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1993 Demolished
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rolling mills plates
war world war ii
steel industry
homestead pa
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homestead
works
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plate
mill
plate mill
monongahela
monongahela river
allegheny
allegheny county
pennsylvania
amsler morton company
defense plant corporation
general electric company
historic american engineering record
jet lowe
mesta machine company
selas corporation
martin stupich
us steel corporation
westinghouse electric company
photo
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library of congress
industrial history
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Defense Plant Corporation
U.S. Steel Corporation
Mesta Machine Company
General Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company
Selas Corporation
Amsler Morton Company
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Stupich, Martin, photographer
Location
Homestead (Pa.)
,
40.40590, -79.91199
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html