Future site of Jones & Laughlin Industrial Redevelopment

1949/1955

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Future site of Jones & Laughlin Industrial Redevelopment
  • Title
  • Future site of Jones & Laughlin Industrial Redevelopment
  • Creator
  • unknown
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B013.F29.I03
  • Description
  • Homes slated for demolition by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation (J&L) to make way for the expansion of its South Side facilities, located at 2709 East Carson Street. The area, now known as the South Side, was given to John Ormsby by the Queen of England for service in the French and Indian War. The town was created by Ormsby’s son-in-law who named it Birmingham after his home city in England. Following World War II, Admiral Ben Moreell served as president (1947-1952), and then chief executive officer (1952-1958), overseeing a post war modernization program to rehabilitate J&L plants and equipment after wartime overuse. In his “Plant Improvement Program,” which he introduced in December of 1950, Moreell introduced a plan to create new power sources, improve upon raw material handling, and increase speed of production. The depressed steel market of the 1970s led to a rapid decline in steel production. The corporation soon began demolishing older factories with no intention of rebuilding. By 1989 most of the South Side Works and the Eliza Furnaces across the Monongahela River were leveled. In the 1990s the few remaining buildings serve as a distant memory of the thriving community these factories surrounded.
  • Subject
  • South Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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