The historic Moravian District in Bethlehem was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list in 2024 When I first visited ...

“The Point” operated for over 120 years until its longtime owner, Bethlehem Steel, went bankrupt and a series of opportunistic operators failed to stem the plant’s losses. In May 2012, RG Steel ...

‘Steel Sun’ project would add solar panels near wind turbines at former Bethlehem Steel site in ... Remnants of the steel mill remain. A recent tour showed deteriorated coke ovens flanked by ...

The steel industry struggled in the 1980s and production halted in Bethlehem in 1995. Seeking a solution for the massive brownfield site left behind, the town launched a project to save the ...

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 ...

Sparrows Point Steel is on the site, near the Port of Baltimore, of what used to be Bethlehem Steel, which was founded in 1887 and became the world’s largest steel producer in the 1950s, with ...

Former Bethlehem Steel facility reopens to make solar trackers 02:18. LEETSDALE, Pa. (KDKA) ... He gave local and national leaders a tour of the facility on Tuesday.

Bethlehem Steel also was responsible for building local communities. Dundalk and Turners Station were developed in response to the need to house the workers at the plant and their families.

The 2020 census counted 19,949 people in Lackawanna. In the late ’50s and ’60s, when “Lackawanna Blues” is set, the town was thriving, courtesy of the Bethlehem Steel mill.

Bethlehem Steel's Sparrow Point mill was once the world's largest producer of steel. But competition from foreign steel, lack of investments and a changing economy caused the company to go ...

The Bethlehem steel mill in Maryland was once the largest working mill in the world, employing 30,000 people at its peak in the 1950's. The collapse of the American steel industry forced the mill ...

When people think of south Bethlehem today – specifically the land once owned by Bethlehem Steel Corp. – thoughts invariably turn to entertainment. People flock to ArtsQuest, the Wind Creek ...