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Edgar Thomson Steel Works in the mid-1990s. The Edgar Thomson Steel Works is a steel mill in the Pittsburgh area communities of Braddock and North Braddock, Pennsylvania. It has been active since 1875. It is currently owned by U.S. Steel and is known as Mon Valley Works – Edgar Thomson Plant.
Carnegie began the construction of his first steel mill, the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, in 1872 at Braddock, Pennsylvania. [1] The Thomson Steel Works began producing rails in 1874. [ 2 ] By a combination of low wages, efficient technology infrastructure investment and an efficient organization, the mill produced cheap steel, which sold for a ...
Braddock's Field. Braddock is named for General Edward Braddock (1695–1755), commander of American colonial forces at the start of the French and Indian War. [5] The Braddock Expedition to capture Fort Duquesne (modern day Pittsburgh) from the French led to the British general's own fatal wounding and a sound defeat of his troops after crossing the Monongahela River on July 9, 1755.
North Braddock is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, along the Monongahela River.The 2020 census had the borough population at 4,320. [3] It is a suburb 11 miles (18 km) east of Pittsburgh.
The Mon Valley Works–Irvin Plant is a steel processing plant operated by U.S. Steel and historically a "hot strip mill" (sometimes referred to as a "steel mill") in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. The site consists of 650 acres on a hilltop 250 feet above the Monongahela Valley. [1]
Allegheny County, PA: 168 Acres: Large Parcel, Flat Land, and Riverfront Location: Allegheny County: Vacant Land: Blast furnace: PCBs, Sulfates: $70–$100 million to convert Carrie Furnace #6 & #7 into a Steel Heritage Museum and Allegheny County has projected that the environmental clean-up would cost between $3–$5 million
Out of the Furnace is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Scott Cooper, from a screenplay by Cooper and Brad Ingelsby.The film stars Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Forest Whitaker, Willem Dafoe, Zoë Saldana, and Sam Shepard, the film follows a Pennsylvania steel mill worker searching for his missing Iraq War veteran brother, who disappeared after engaging in a ...
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