Homestead

The landscape around Homestead is a steep-sided stretch of the Monongahela River valley, which shaped both its compact riverside development and its steelmaking economy. The borough lies just southeast of Pittsburgh, on ground once dominated by the Homestead Works, one of the major steel plants associated with Andrew Carnegie. The 1892 Homestead Strike, a violent conflict between workers and the Carnegie Steel Company, made the town a lasting reference point in American labor history. The Bost Building served as strike headquarters for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Former mill land beside the river now includes The Waterfront development. Browse other webcams across the Monongahela Valley and western Pennsylvania to place Homestead in a wider geographic context.

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