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The aptly named town of Midland was laid out in 1906 around the mill site. In 1911, Crucible Steel Co. purchased Midland Steel, and for the next 71 years it would be a keystone employer in...
In 1907 Crucible created the first patented vanadium high-speed steel, and in 1955, it was the first company to commercially produce vacuum arc re-melted steels. The Crucible Steel Company’s Midland Works (pictured here) was located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
The fledgling steel company began the process of clearing land and constructing the new steel mill. This required men, and men require places to live. The first Midland company homes were built...
In 1949, Crucible began operations in an $18 million sheet and strip mill at the Midland works, becoming the first steel mill to use hot and cold rolling of stainless and high-alloy sheet and strip. Iron Age, manufacturer of the hot reversing mill, called this a transition from a curiosity to standard production practice; ovens on both sides of ...
Midland was another one of our local “mill towns,” built part and parcel by the steel industry. In past columns, we have looked at the very early history of the land which became Midland.
Photographer Jack Delano captures several steel workers, in this January 1940 shot, as they make their way to work at the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Company in nearby Midland, PA. Photogrammer/Jack Delano. 5. A smoky shot of a steel mill in the South Side with the Jones and Laughlin Steel Mill in the background as captured in 1940. advertisement.
Photographs show industrial town on the Ohio River dominated by the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Company. Day and night overall views of mill and town. Company housing and other sub-standard dwellings.
Closing Crucible is a collection of oral histories on the Crucible steel mill in Midland, Pa.
Searching for Dream Street is an ongoing photographic expedition to document the current state of the former steel towns along the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers within approximately 40 miles of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Midland is a borough located along the Ohio River in western Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,433. [3] It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Founded in 1906, it was initially a company town surrounding the Crucible Steel Company's Midland Works.