Homestead Stacks

USA / Pennsylvania / Homestead /
 chimney, monument, industrial heritage, steelworks, historic landmark
These 12 towering smokestacks stand on the site of the former US Steel Homestead Works steel mills. They used to vent heat from red-hot steel ingots waiting to be reshaped in the 45-inch slab mill. They now stand like lonely sentinels at the edge of the Loews Theater parking lot.

The Homestead Works of U.S. Steel, which at one time produced nearly a third of all the steel used in the United States, shut its doors July 25, 1986.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Steel_Works
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Coordinates:   40°24'17"N   79°55'4"W

Comments

  • The stacks were built to vent the soaking pits for the 45" Mill. Bessemer furnaces were no longer in use in the 1940s, when this part of the site was developed as part of the World War II expansion; larger and more efficent Open Hearth furnaces were in use by this period.
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