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| Mike Collette posted, rotated and cropped 8.20.1965 wheeling pit David Barcus: Football Stadium is there. Mike Collette: David Barcus yep Dennis DeBruler: Was this mill part of Wheeling Steel or Pittsburgh Steel? Mike Collette: Dennis DeBruler wheeling Pittsburgh steel Dennis DeBruler: Mike Collette Wheeling-Pittsburgh was created in 1968 as a merger of Wheeling Steel and Pittsburgh Steel. I know that Pittsburgh Steel was in Monessen and Allenport. And Wheeling Steel was in several places in Ohio and WV. But I have not been able to determine which company owned this mill before the merger. Bryan Hockenberry: Wheeling Steel built the BOF and 80 inch Hot Mill. The BOF had a sign that lit up at night in neon saying Wheeling Steel. |
Bryan's reply that this plant was Wheeling Steel rather than Pittsburgh Steel makes the following paragraph obsolete. But I did not delete it because of the useful references.
In 1968, Wheeling Steel merged with Pittsburgh Steel to form Wheeling-Pittsburgh steel. [encylopedia] So I assumed this was the Pittsburgh Steel part of that merger. But this history of Pittsburgh Steel indicates that it was founded in Monessen, PA, and expanded to Allenport, PA. But a history of Wheeling Steel also does not mention a mill in Pittsburgh.
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| 1960 Pittsburgh West Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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| Jon Wolfe posted Wheeling pitt |
The photo and map are not the same location. If you look at where the curve in the tracks is, you should be able to see the Point across the river. The PRR tracks should be ~4 tracks wide there in the curve, and does not look to be that. Also, any mill on the North Side of Pittsburgh did not last long enough to have modern looking buildings like those.
ReplyDeleteI think the photo is of W-P's Mingo Junction portion of their Steubenville Works. The photo is cropped/framed so you can't see the Ohio River bridge to the right, which would make it unmistakable.