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SouthSide Works (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

USA / Pennsylvania / Pittsburgh / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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History of the steel mill:

The steel plant on this site had operated since 1893 and housed open hearth furnaces and blooming and billet mills. At its peak in the 1960s, J&L Steel employed about 8,500 people.

SouthSide Works was closely integrated with J & L's Hazelwood Works across the Monongahela River. Hazelwood produced molten steel in several blast furnaces which was hauled by train across the Hot Metal Bridge to the J&L Southside Works on the left bank where the rolling mills are located. After rolling and cooling, a portion of the steel was brought back to Hazelwood where some went through the finishing mills (mostly wire and nails) and the rest went into the storage buildings. Major structural steel was shipped directly from the Southside Works.

In 1968, LTV purchased J & L, and then merged it with Republic Steel in 1985 to form LTV Steel. One year later, the mill was forced to close due to foreign competition, high labor costs, and a lack of modern steel-making equipment. The property was abandoned and the mill was demolished in the early 1990s.

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Coordinates:   40°25'40"N   79°57'54"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago