McKees Rocks Industrial Enterprises

USA / Pennsylvania / Bellevue / Nichol Avenue, 149
 warehouse, distribution centre
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Bulk materials storage and distribution terminal served by truck, rail, and barge. The facility has its own on-site switching railroad, the Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad. www.e-mrie.com/

The Pressed Steel Car Company ran one of America's major railroad car plants on this site between 1899 and 1949. In its early years, the plant was nicknamed "The Slaughterhouse" and "The Last Chance" because of its deadly working conditions. The largely Slavic immigrant workforce went on strike in 1909; violence between strikers and law enforcement on the "Bloody Sunday" of August 22 resulted in at least 12 deaths.
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Coordinates:   40°28'50"N   80°3'33"W
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