Homestead Steel Works

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industrial facility steel mill

Homestead Steel Works was a major 19th- and early 20th-century steel mill near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, best known as a centerpiece of Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire and the site of the 1892 Homestead Strike, a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Homestead Steel Works canonical	1
Homestead Steel Works historic site	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	industrial facility ⓘ steel mill ⓘ
associatedWith	Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers ⓘ Andrew Carnegie ⓘ Henry Clay Frick ⓘ Pinkerton National Detective Agency ⓘ
category	Andrew Carnegie ⓘ Industrial history of the United States ⓘ Labor history of the United States ⓘ Steel mills in Pennsylvania ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
employs	steelworkers ⓘ
endDate	1980s ⓘ
heritageDesignation	National Historic Landmark district (site-related areas) ⓘ
historicalEra	19th century ⓘ early 20th century ⓘ
impact	development of U.S. steel industry ⓘ growth of Pittsburgh as an industrial center ⓘ shaping U.S. labor relations ⓘ
industry	steelmaking ⓘ
knownFor	Homestead Strike ⓘ labor conflict ⓘ role in U.S. labor history ⓘ
laborDispute	Homestead Strike ⓘ
locatedIn	Allegheny County ⓘ surface form: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Homestead, Pennsylvania ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Eastern Time Zone ⓘ
locatedNear	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ
locatedOn	Monongahela River ⓘ
ownedBy	Andrew Carnegie ⓘ Carnegie Steel Company ⓘ United States Steel Corporation ⓘ
partOf	Andrew Carnegie ⓘ surface form: Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire Carnegie Steel Company ⓘ
peakEmployment	tens of thousands of workers ⓘ
product	armor plate ⓘ steel ⓘ steel rails ⓘ structural steel ⓘ
railConnection	Pennsylvania Railroad Company ⓘ surface form: Pennsylvania Railroad Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad ⓘ
region	Monongahela River Valley ⓘ surface form: Monongahela Valley
significantEvent	Homestead Strike ⓘ surface form: Homestead Strike of 1892
startDate	1880s ⓘ
status	defunct ⓘ
strikeDate	1892 ⓘ
successorUse	The Waterfront shopping complex ⓘ
technologyUsed	Bessemer process ⓘ open-hearth furnaces ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Homestead, Pennsylvania → knownFor → Homestead Steel Works ⓘ

West Homestead, Pennsylvania → near → Homestead Steel Works ⓘ

this entity surface form: Homestead Steel Works historic site