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Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. [488] Toyah: Reeves: Semi-abandoned site [489] Toyahvale: Reeves [490] Towash: Hill: No longer exists. [491] Trickham: Coleman: Semi-abandoned Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town, with a year-2000 population of 12 residents ...
Carrie Furnace is a former blast furnace located along the Monongahela River in the Pittsburgh area industrial town of Swissvale, Pennsylvania, and it had formed a part of the Homestead Steel Works. The Carrie Furnaces were built in 1884 and they operated until 1982. During its peak, the site produced 1,000 to 1,250 tons of iron per day. [3]
Coulee Dam, Washington was originally two adjacent company towns created in 1933 to support the construction of Grand Coulee Dam – Mason City, owned by lead construction contractor Consolidated Builders Inc., and Engineers' Town, owned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. CBI transferred control of Mason City to Reclamation in 1942.
Pipes are seen at an abandoned steel blast furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania April 8, 2011. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (ERIC THAYER / reuters) Ines Ferre is a senior business reporter for Yahoo Finance.
Rusting steel stacks of Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The company, one of the largest steel manufacturers for most of the 20th century, ceased most manufacturing in 1982. The Rust Belt, formerly the Steel Belt or Factory Belt, is an area of industrial decline centered in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
Leetsdale at one time had a formidable industrial manufacturing base, with a Bethlehem Steel mill that closed in the late 1970s. The site of the mill on the shore of the Ohio River is now the Leetsdale Industrial Park, or the Port of Leetsdale, and is home to facilities leased, by The Buncher Company, to a number of companies of varying sizes ...
Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in southwestern Pennsylvania, centered on Pittsburgh and oriented around the interpretation and promotion of the region's steel-making heritage.
The Steel City is a common nickname for many cities that were once known for their production of large amounts of steel. With industrial production also in developing countries, like those in Eastern Europe and Asia, most of these cities do not produce as much steel as they used to.