Homestead, Pennsylvania Homestead, Pennsylvania The Bost Building, assembled in 1892, was AA union command posts during the Homestead Strike that year, and today is a National Historic Landmark and exhibition of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area Allegheny County Pennsylvania incorporated and unincorporated areas Homestead highlighted.svg Homestead is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, in the Monongahela River valley 7 miles (11 km) southeast of downtown Pittsburgh and directly athwart the river from the town/city limit line.
The borough is known for the Homestead Strike of 1892, an meaningful event in the history of workforce relations in the United States.
The populace of Homestead was 3,165 at the 2010 census. The region on the south bank of the Monongahela River now comprising the boroughs of Homestead, Munhall and West Homestead saw the first white pioneer arrive in the 1770s.
One hundred years later, much of the existing farmland on the flats and hillsides by the river was purchased, laid out in lots and sold by small-town banks and territory owners to problematic the town of Homestead.
In 1883, Andrew Carnegie bought out Homestead Steel Works, adding it to his empire of steel and coke enterprises.
Carnegie had recently acquired a controlling interest in Henry Clay Frick's coke works on the Monongahela, setting the stage for the dramatic workforce clash in Homestead.
Homestead attained international notoriety in July 1892 as the site of a violent clash between locked-out steelworkers and hired Pinkerton guards, known as the Homestead Strike.
When Henry Clay Frick, manager for Andrew Carnegie, owner of the small-town Homestead Steel Works, announced in the spring of 1892 that skilled workers would receive a reduction in wages, the advisory committee of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers refused to sign a new contract.
Frick successfully finished the union in Homestead and, by extension, in most of his other steel mills through the nation.
It also set the stage for the future steel strike of 1919, in which Homestead played an meaningful part .
At the turn of the 20th century, in 1900, the populace of Homestead was 12,554 citizens , of whom some 7,000 were working in the plants.
In the first decade of the 20th century, Homestead was studied as part of the sociological Pittsburgh Survey, the results of which were eventually presented as Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town.
During the early 1940s half the populace was displaced as the United States government added to the steel mills to have the capacity for armor plating for ships and tanks (preparing for World War II).
By 1980, it had turn into difficult to obtain employment at the Homestead Works, which was not producing much steel at that time.
As a direct result of the loss of foundry employment, the number of citizens living in Homestead dwindled.
Further information: Category:People from Homestead, Pennsylvania Homestead was the home of the Homestead Grays baseball team, one of the most prosperous teams in Negro League history.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the borough has a total region of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2), of which 0.6 square miles (1.6 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2), or 11.11%, is water.
North Squirrel Hill (a Pittsburgh neighborhood), over the Homestead Grays Bridge athwart the Monongahela River West West Homestead (an Allegheny county borough) Much of Homestead and some of the encircling communities are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Homestead Historic District.
Unfortunately, since the method of the steel mills in the 1980s, the populace and company precinct of Homestead have seriously declined, causing many older buildings to be abandoned.
The Carnegie Library of Homestead was opened to the enhance in 1898.
Some claim it was a peace offering to the improve following the affairs of the steel strike in 1892, and that as such it was rejected by Homestead, which is why it is in Munhall instead.
In fact, the plans were already in the works for the building of the library before the strike, and the Borough of Munhall had not been incorporated when the library was built.
Also not technically in Homestead proper, but positioned just west of the borough, is the prominent waterpark, Sandcastle, with waterslides, pools and waterside eveningclub adjoining to the Monongahela River.
Sandcastle's sister locale for summertime fun is Kennywood, positioned in West Mifflin, about 4 miles (6 km) east of Homestead.
Still standing in the Waterfront evolution are some of the brick stacks from the Homestead Steel Works.
An meaningful state route, Pennsylvania Route 837, runs through Homestead.
For enhance transit, the Port Authority of Allegheny County has a several bus routes running through Homestead that go to downtown Pittsburgh and to Mc - Keesport.
Homestead is served by three barns s: the Norfolk Southern, CSX Transportation and the Union Railroad.
All three used to have large operations when the Homestead steel foundry was open.
The Union Railroad had a large yard to serve the Homestead Works, which is now Waterfront Drive.
Homestead Pennsylvania Railroad Station, assembled about 1890, on Amity Street in Homestead Carnegie Library of Homestead, assembled from 1896 to 1898, positioned in the Homestead Historic District in Munhall Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town.
Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town.
A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead.
"Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Homestead borough, Pennsylvania".
"Engineering an Industrial Diaspora: Homestead, 1941".
Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1902 from the Library of Congress via the World Digital Library
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