The Pilgrimage to Bethlehem Steel's Abandoned Mills | Abandoned …
Once the second biggest steel manufacturer in the United States, Bethlehem Steel was one of the world's largest shipbuilders, provider of the steel that fueled the skyscraper boom, and a proud icon of American industrial might. This was their flagship plant in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with furnaces dating as far back as 1861.
The Abandoned Bethlehem Lackawanna Steel Company | Abandoned …
2019年12月10日 · Bethlehem bought out Lackawanna steel in 1922 and spent $40 million on plant updates over the next decade. At its height it was the world's largest steel factory and an employed over 20,000 workers producing steel plates for the military and beams used in the Empire State Building and Golden Gate Bridge.
Shuttered: Images from the Fall of Bethlehem Steel
From 1887 to 2012, the Bethlehem Steel mill at Sparrows Point provided steady if dangerous work for tens of thousands of men and women. Steelmaking was more than just a job to these workers—it was a way of life that built stable communities, strong human bonds, and a unique industrial landscape.
Abandoned America: Faded factories across the USA - USA TODAY
2018年2月14日 · The Carrie Furnaces are one of the last remaining vestiges of U.S. Steel’s sprawling Homestead Works facility in Pittsburgh. They were abandoned in 1978 when the plant closed.
This former steel mill used to employ thousands—how the site is …
2021年7月10日 · For more than a hundred years, a steel mill on the Patapsco River near Baltimore was a major economic driver of the region. At its height in the 1950s, it employed tens of thousands of workers....
Warren Steel: The Day the Machines Went Quiet
2017年11月13日 · In 1957, Copperweld would merge with Superior Steel Company, a stainless steel finisher, but sold off the division due to 5 years of less-than-favorable performance. In 1959, Copperweld, alongside Battelle Memorial Institute had developed a second bimetallic product line, branded under the name Alumoweld.
Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry ...
2024年4月5日 · Between 1980 and 1983, roughly 95,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in and around the Pittsburgh area. Mills that had employed thousands of people, providing a pathway to middle class status for generations, closed up shop, most of them permanently.
Abandoned America's Businesses and Industries
Abandoned America’s collection of abandoned factories, mills, power plants, refineries, coal breakers, steel mills, and more. Click on a gallery below to explore!
Into the Rust Belt: The Legendary Ruins of Joliet Iron Works
2016年11月12日 · Exploring the ruins of the legendary Joliet Steel and Iron Works and the abandoned remains of Gebhard Brewery in Morris, Illinois.
Former Steel Mill Forges New Beginning With Groundbreaking
2017年11月20日 · As the sun shone through the beams of an iconic, abandoned steel mill Monday, more than 250 dignitaries from business, government and Carnegie Mellon University came together to bring a new day to American manufacturing.