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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25AV_making-iron_Bethlehem-PA.html
The Blast Furnaces reduced iron ore to metallic pig iron. The furnaces had differing production capabilities, ranging from 800 to 3300 tons of iron per day. Most of this would later be processed into steel.
1 Heating The Materials
Hot air forced…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25AR_hot-loud-dangerous_Bethlehem-PA.html
Steelworkers often labored six or even seven days a week in long and exhausting shifts. Accidents were common. Over 500 men died on the job between 1905 and 1941. Hundreds, if not thousands, were badly injured by burning metal, toxic gases, and fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25AO_a-community-of-workers_Bethlehem-PA.html
The streets that stretch up from the steel plant make up South Bethlehem. Over the decades, this community grew along with Bethlehem Steel's growing workforce. Generations of workers lived, shopped, attended school and church, played sports, and s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25AK_immigration-industry_Bethlehem-PA.html
Imagine leaving behind all you know and starting a new life in a foreign place with few friends and little money. From the 1880s to the 1920s, millions of European immigrants arrived in the US in hope of finding work and a better life. Many found …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25AH_the-beginnings-of-bethlehem-steel_Bethlehem-PA.html
The story of Bethlehem Steel begins in the 1840s when the Lehigh Canal and the coal it carried triggered the American Industrial Revolution in the Lehigh Valley. In the 1850s, newly-constructed railroad lines like the Lehigh Valley Railroad needed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25AG_blast-furnace_Bethlehem-PA.html
Look around you, these five blast furnaces were the heart of the plant for many decades. Ordinarily up to three of the five furnaces would be operating at one time. They ran continuously-night and day, seven days a week-and required constant feedi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM242O_moving-materials_Bethlehem-PA.html
The walkway you're standing on
is the Hoover-Mason Trestle, an elevated rail line built to transport raw materials to the blast furnaces. Named after the engineering firm that designed and built it, the Trestle was in use from 1907 until 1995.
T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM242G_iron-and-steel-a-history_Bethlehem-PA.html
People have been producing iron and steel for thousands of years, heating up iron ores and limestone by burning charcoal, anthracite coal or coke (a fuel derived from coal) to create a sturdy metal. Iron-whether it is hammered ("wrought") into sha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM242B_air-products_Bethlehem-PA.html
Air Products, founded in 1940, revolutionized the supply of industrial gases on the novel concept of building a plant next to a steel mill and piping oxygen directly to the customer. That transformative idea was reflected in the "A" of Air Product…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM22L1_exploring-the-corridor_Easton-PA.html
"Our residents take pride and partner in their heritage—they understand the meaning of what we have and act to preserve it"
Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor and State Heritage Park, Management Action Plan.
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