Within 20 years of U.S. Steel’s christening, Pittsburgh mills were ... The mighty Homestead Works — for many years the largest steel mill in the world — went dormant in 1986.

Ray Rieser Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024 12:01 p.m. | Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024 12:01 p.m. In the early hours of June 23, 1910, John Mitchell died in an unimaginable way at the West Penn Steel plant in ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA ... "I saw it before when I worked in Homestead, and I was there when the last man walked out of the mill, and it was devastating," West Mifflin Mayor Chris Kelly said.