Harbor Slip
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The steel plant’s harbor was specially built to accommodate the large boats used for transporting ore. A 23-foot deep channel was dug, with a turning basin at its south end. The harbor was built at the cost of almost $2.5 million at the time, which in 2019 would have been around $72 million. The first blast furnace started operation a month after this photo was taken.
This file appears in: Construction of the Mill
Construction of the Mill
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…