Contruction at the Wheeling Steel Corporation   Save
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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. Construction items can be seen all over the ground, including steel beams, pieces of pipe, and wood. A crane is also in view. Several men can be seen looking at whatever building is currently being worked on. 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. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F11_001_1
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Steel-works--Ohio--Pictorial works; Wheeling Steel Corporation; Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation; Steubenville (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Construction--1920-1930
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)