In 1863, the Youngstown Telegraph noted that Youngstown would soon have seven blast furnaces, three rolling mills, a steelworks, two machine shops, and some
Caption: Bessemer Mill and Open Hearth Furnace The top image is the exterior of Bessemer Steel-Mill, Pennsylvania Steel Works. The bottom image is Open Hearth
G.E.'s Ohio Lamp Plant, in Warren, OH, where all of that company's Republic Steel's abandoned rolling mill in Youngstown as it looked in 1986 as it was
The Mahoning Valley was becoming one of the great iron and steel areas of the nation. Youngstown was a convenient meeting place for individuals looking for ore