Inside the Wheeling Steel Corporation
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Description: Reverse reads: "The Koppers Construction Co., Wheeling Steel Corp. #28. Sept. 13, 1926. No. #28."
This is an interior photograph of a Connellsville Exhauster machine in the Byproducts Plant inside the Wheeling Steel Corporation in Steubenville, Ohio on September 13, 1926. Construction was being done at the time by The Koppers Construction Company.
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_006_1
Subjects: 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.)
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F11_006_1
Subjects: 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.)
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)