U.S. Steel Homestead Works, Blast Furnace Plant, Along Monongahela River, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA

See also HAER PA-200 for additional documentation. Includes written data (pages 76 through 94).

Significance: As a group, the structures and steel-making equipment from Homestead Works represented one of the nation's most important steel mills and the Mon Valley's status as the pre-eminent iron and steel center in the United States for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Survey number: HAER PA-200-A

Building/structure dates: 1883 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1899- 1903 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1907 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1909-1976 Subsequent Work

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