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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Press Shop No. 2, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

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U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Press Shop No. 2, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

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Summary

See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 134 & 135).
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-L
Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1970 Subsequent Work

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Date

1970
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Defense Plant Corporation
U.S. Steel Corporation
Mesta Machine Company
Towler Hydraulics
Alliance [machinery manufacturer]
Bliss [machinery manufacturer]
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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