Allegheny County PA Archives- Photos: Carnegie Steel Works, Homestead, Allegheny County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Ellis Michaels , Nov 2011 Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/photos/carnegiesteel-homestead2.txt Photo may be viewed at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/photos/carnegiesteel-homestead2.jpg http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/photos/carnegiesteel-homestead2b.jpg Stereoview Postcard, ca. 1908 Steel Works, Homestead, PA famous source of dust and dollars Copyright 1908 by Underwood & Underwood It is not lovely to look at, but it is a great sight-what all these smoking chimneys imply! You are about eight miles from Pittsburg on the south side of the Monongahela. Here it was that the great strike occurred in 1892 when a pitched battle took place between the "locked-out" work men and a force of Pinkerton detectives employed by the Carnegie Company to guard this immensely valuable plant. Both strikers and guards were heavily armed; rifles, cannon and dynamite took deadly effect. Twenty men killed and many more horribly wounded. Andrew Carnegie himself was in Europe at the time and H. C. Frick was the Carnegie Company's authority, In 1901 this and other Manufacturing plants of the Carnegie Company were turned into the newly-formed Steel Trust-the famous corporation that started with $1,100,000,000 in stock and $304,000,000 in bonds. Andrew Carnegie himself, "the star-spangled Scotchman" as they him, came to Pittsburg in 1845, a ten-year-old boy, and was thankful to earn $1.20 a week in a linen factory, The first investment he ever made was the purchase of ten shares in the Adams Express Co. He was thirty years old when he went into the iron and steel business and these smoky chimneys have since helped to make a good many of the millions he is now trying to spend. These works here at Homestead produce steel chiefly for railway tracks, for bridge construction and for armored battleships. From Descriptive Bulletin No. 3, copyrighted, 1904, by Underwood & Underwood. Steel Works, Homestead