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Title
Construction
at the
Wheeling
Steel
Corporation
Subject
Industries--Ohio
Steel-works--Ohio--Pictorial works
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation
Steubenville (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Construction--1920-1930
Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Time Period
1920s
1930s
Place
Steubenville (Ohio)
Jefferson County (Ohio)
Description
This
is
a
photo
of a
construction
site
at the
Wheeling
Steel
Corporation
in
Steubenville
,
Ohio
. The
construction
was
being
done
by The
Koppers
Construction
Company
in
1926
. The
Wheeling
Steel
Corporation
,
founded
in
1920
, was
located
at
227
South
Third
Street
at
Bates
Street
and was
one
of the
largest
plants
of its
kind
in the
Ohio
Valley
.
Covering
an
area
a
mile
long
and a
quarter
of a
mile
wide
, the
plant
produced
raw
steel
,
coils
,
bars
and
sheet
pipe
.
Included
in the
equipment
are
private
railroad
tracks
and
locomotives
,
two
blast
furnaces
with a
daily
capacity
of
1
,
600
tons
,
11
open
hearth
mills
, and a
hot
strip
mill
.
Steamboats
and
barges
owned
by the
company
plied
the
river
between
Pittsburgh
,
Pennsylvania
and
Memphis
,
Tennessee
. In
addition
, a
company
owned
bridge
almost
a
mile
long
connects
with a
large
byproduct
plant
on the
West
Virginia
side
of the
Ohio
River
. In
December
1968
,
Pittsburgh
Steel
Company
was
merged
into
Wheeling
Steel
Corporation
to
form
the
Wheeling-Pitt
.
Esmark
,
Inc
.
engaged
in a
successful
proxy
takeover
battle
for
Wheeling-Pitt
in
2005
and
formally
took
over
the
steelmaker
in
November
2007
. In
August
2008
,
Severstal
acquired
Esmark's
Wheeling-Pitt
steel
holdings
for
$1.25
billion
. The
plant
was
closed
,
supposedly
temporarily
, on
April
3
,
2009
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Date of Original
February
8
,
1926
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
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File Name
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Image Height
4459
Image Width
5699
File Size
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Display File Type
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Format
picture
Date created
2011-05-17
Date modified
2011-05-17
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