USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Once the center of the American steel industry, and still known as “The Steel City", today the city of Pittsburgh has no steel mills within its limits, though Pittsburgh-based companies such as US Steel, Ampco Pittsburgh and Allegheny Technologies own several working mills in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

Detailed explanation-2: -Braddock, PA Edgar Thomson Plant, located about 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh in Braddock, Pennsylvania, is where basic steel production takes place at Mon Valley Works.

Detailed explanation-3: -What Is Pittsburgh Best Known For? The city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has long been known for the steel industry since the Gilded Age, thanks to industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and George Westinghouse.

Detailed explanation-4: -Well known as the ‘Steel City, ’ Pittsburgh has long been recognized as the epitome of labor and capital power, highlighted from the mid-19th century through much of the 20th century.