Steel Ore Boat

ID: 2898 ~ Source: Maritime History of the Great Lakes [Image available here] ~ Creator: B.W. Kilburn ~ Date: 1907

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A freighter unloading iron ore at Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario for the Algoma Steel Company. Ships like these were used at US Steel as well.

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Construction of the Mill

By Gary Public Library

Unlike other well-known centers of industry, such as Pittsburgh or Detroit, where the cities significantly predated the beginning of industrial development in those areas, Gary’s history as a city begins with US Steel. In the early twentieth…