Jones and Laughlin Historical

Jones and Laughlin Historical (HM1W71)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Allegheny County
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Country: United States of America
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N 40° 25.577', W 79° 57.229'

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The partnership between Jones & Laughlin combined the skills of an older financial genius with those of a brilliant young entrepreneur. Before the Civil War, Jones established a rolling mill on the South Side, and Laughlin subsequently built an iron furnace on this side of the river. The two firms formed the Jones & Laughlin Company.

J&L began as a family business and the principal partners trained their sons and brothers to take over executive positions. Jones based the management on "Vertical Combination"-the concept of owning raw materials, fuel, transportation, and other requirements needed to create a finished product. J&L owned iron ore mines near Lake Michigan, coal mines in Washington and Greene Counties, a Blair County limestone company, and drilled natural gas wells to supply the mill. The company established docks on Lake Erie and owned hundreds of barges.

On January 1, 1900, J&L made a momentous decision to shift exclusively to the fabrication of products made from steel. Although the Eliza blast furnaces continued to smelt iron used to make the steel, J&L no longer made iron products.

At its peak in the 20th century, J&L employed 30,000 workers and occupied over seven miles of riverfront. For more than a century, J&L's smoke stacks, furnaces, rolling mills, coke ovens and factory buildings lined both sides of the river.
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HM NumberHM1W71
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Placed ByPA DCNR, Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, City of PIttsburgh, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
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Date Added Friday, December 9th, 2016 at 1:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17T E 588744 N 4475597
Decimal Degrees40.42628333, -79.95381667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 25.577', W 79° 57.229'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 25' 34.6200" N, 79° 57' 13.7400" W
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Area Code(s)412, 724
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Three Rivers Heritage Trail, Pittsburgh PA 15213, US
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