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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Open Hearth Steelmaking Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

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Summary

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-N

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
U.S. Steel Corporation
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Stupich, Martin, photographer
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Location

Homestead (Pa.)40.40590, -79.91199
Google Map of 40.4059025, -79.9119948
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Library of Congress
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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

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