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Name of Notable Genus AsNotedIn No Address Proximity Area
Name Genus AsNotedIn Address Proximity Area
Bost Building
  • Activity
  • Sight
  • NRHP
  • US NHL
621 - 623 E 8th Ave
Historic Pump House
  • Activity
  • Sight
880 E Waterfront Dr S side of Monongahela R, NE of Homestead
Homestead Historic District
  • Sight
  • NRHP
8th Ave Roughly bounded by Mesta, Sixth, Andrew, 11th and Walnuts Sts and Doyle and Seventh Aves
Homestead Pennsylvania Railroad Station
  • Sight
  • NRHP
Amity St

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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Andrew Carnegie Significant name
Carnegie Steel Company Significant name
Henry Clay Frick Significant name

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Homestead, Pennsylvania, was once synonymous with the steel industry. The Homestead Steel Works, established in 1881 by the Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Company and purchased by Andrew Carnegie in 1883, was once the largest steel plant in the country. The Works were located in Allegheny County, approximately seven miles southeast of Pittsburgh and stretched along both banks of the Monongahela River. On the south bank, the Works included the boroughs of Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall extending four miles and on the north bank, it included the boroughs of Swissvale and Rankin for a distance of nearly a mile.

The Works became the focus of national attention when a violent clash between labor and management, known as the Battle of Homestead, occurred there during the summer of 1892. The Battle stands for both the high-water mark of craft unionism and the onset of the nearly 50-year nonunion period in the steel industry. Subsequently, under Carnegie's dynamic leadership, the Homestead Steel Works was expanded during the 1890s when Carnegie Steel bought the Carrie Furnace Plant, with its two existing iron furnaces - Carrie Nos. 1 and 2. In 1901, the company linked the Carrie Furnace Plant to its Homestead Works with the construction of the Hot Metal Bridge to transport molten iron in ladle cars across the Monongahela River. Later in 1901, Carnegie sold the Homestead Works and Carrie Furnaces to J P Morgan, and it became part of the US Steel Corporation, the nation's first billion-dollar company. Although eclipsed in size by the turn of the century by the construction of new steel plants, the Homestead Steel Works remained the largest in the Pittsburgh area during the twentieth. - NPS


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