(Photo by Sandi Yanisko) One of these business legends was Francis Saylor of the late 1800s, a bridge-builder and owner of the Pottstown Roller Mill. Saylor eventually sold his bridge company in 1900 ...

Steelton. It’s there in the local high school’s mascot: the Steamrollers, or Rollers. And it’s there in those massive buildings along the Susquehanna River where steel has been made for nearly 160 ...

NOTE: This post was updated at 10:42 a.m. with some information on the plant’s importance to the local tax base. STEELTON — ...

Baltimore-born Rivers Chambers, founder of the band that bore his name, was a perennial presence at wedding receptions, ...

The Industrial Archives & Library expands with a 62-acre donation in Bethlehem, preserving Bethlehem Steel and U.S.

Salling worked for a contractor there for 25 years and said he’d done nearly every job at the steel mill. Giants such as Bethlehem Steel, General Motors, the Glenn L. Martin Company and Lever Brothers ...

In his book, “Making Steel, Sparrows Point, The Rise and Failure of American Industrial Might,” journalist Mark Reuter documents how the industry behemoth categorically treated workers as ...

Raymond W. Will, a mechanical engineer and former general foreman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s Rod and Wire Mill at its Sparrows Point works, died Nov. 17 at Senator Bob Hooper Hospice House in… ...

Raniere is an artist and historian who has authored and designed several books of local history, ... 18 families, 3 taverns, one mill and 73 inhabitants. ... survived with Bethlehem Steel.

To read earlier chapters of the book, find Chapter One here, Chapter Two here, Chapter Three here and Chapter Four here. Chapter 5. Mineral commodities: a small footprint, a large impact and a ...

1916-1999: Bethlehem Steel’s fluctuating success, the World Wars and violations. In 1916, about two years into World War I, Bethlehem Steel officially acquired the mill and steelyard at Sparrows Point ...

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