[PRCo] Finished through March 22, 1947

[Robert Netzlof]

On 5/24/14, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:

> Ever hear of a steel mill on the North Side.   Here is an item about
> Crucible Steel tearing down its facility on Ridge Ave.   Ridge ran about
> 4,600 feet from Chateau St. (just west of the West End Bridge) eastward to
> Merchant St., which is two blocks short of Federal St.   It is parallel to
> and one block north of Reedsdale St., where the new light rail runs.
>
> So where was the mill?  Between Lighthill St and Chartiers St., Ridge on the
> north and the Ohio river on the south.  That put's it just east of the West
> End Bridge and behind the new Three Rivers Casino.   And Ridge doesn't go
> there today.  Route 65 expressway blocks it.

Sheet 75 of the 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for the City of
Allegheny shows the Crucible Steel works, and on the other side of
Light Hill, the Carnegie Steel McCutcheon Works.

Maps are available online at:

 http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/digital/sanborn.html

-- 
Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob