Download or read book The Monongahela River of Dreams River of Sweat written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monongahela is one of three rivers that meet in Pittsburgh, where Parker was Executive Vice President of the Waterways Association from 1971 to 1993. He recounts the river's history from a route for early expansion west to its current commercial and leisure use. Among the highlights are the beginning of shipbuilding in the 1790s, the growth of other industries and subsequent need for coal, Carnegie's first steel mill in 1872, the bloody Homestead strike in 1892, the rusting of the steel belt in the 1980s, and attempts to revive.
Download or read book Monongahela River Pa written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monongahela River Pa written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monongahela River Navigation System Locks and Dam 7 8 Feasibility Study PA WV written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monongahela written by Richard Bissell and published by eNet Press. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Bissell has artfully intertwined his experiences as a pilot on the Coal Queen with historical facts and anecdotes about the boats and men who made the Monongahela River in West Virginia into one of America's greatest workhorses.
Download or read book Monongahela Dam 2 Spillway Monongahela River Pennsylvania written by Deborah R. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Steel Plants of the Monongahela River Valley written by Robert S. Dorsett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pittsburgh's Monongahela River is named after the Lenape Indian word Menaonkihela, meaning "where banks cave and erode." The name is fitting: for over a century, these riverbanks were lined with steel plants and railroads that have now "caved and eroded" away. By the 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the world's largest manufacturer of iron, steel rails, and coke. However, in the 1970s, cheap foreign steel flooded the market. Following the 1981-1982 recession, the plants laid off 153,000 workers. The year 1985 saw the beginning of demolition; by 1990, seven of nine major steel plants had shut down. Duquesne, Homestead, Jones & Laughlin, and Eliza Furnace are gone; only the Edgar Thomson plant remains as a producer of steel. The industry could be said to have built and nearly destroyed the region both economically and environmentally. While these steel plants are lost today, the legacy of their workers is not forgotten.
Download or read book Brownsville to Braddock written by Ron Donoughe and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monongahela River Valley in Southwestern Pennsylvania is steeped with a rich industrial history. Starting with iron, brass, tin, and glass production, the river towns--from Brownsville to Braddock--ultimately helped make Pittsburgh the one-time steelmaking capital of the world. With this industrial legacy in mind, artist Ron Donoughe set out to document the small towns in this region, one painting at a time. Over a twelve-month period, he explored the forgotten towns of Brownsville, California, Donora, Charleroi, Monessen, Monongahela, Clairton, Duquesne, McKeesport, Braddock, and the Monongahela River itself. Brownsville to Braddock provides key insight on a forty-mile stretch of river towns. The post-industrial economy led to a decline in manufacturing, and with it, substantial job losses. These towns face many significant challenges, yet there is still beauty to be found. Donoughe finds it as he paints the human spirit through the mills, factories, parks, and homes. The people he meets share their stories of family joy and sorrows, along with a genuine love for the area they call the "Mon Valley."
Download or read book Flood Plain Information Monongahela River Fayette County Pennsylvania written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Pittsburgh District and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monongahela River Oil Spill written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navigation Conditions at Locks and Dam No 4 Monongahela River Pennsylvania written by John J. Franco and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Coal Mines of the Monongahela River Region written by J. Sutton Wall and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pittsburgh s Rivers written by Daniel J. Burns and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the land at the forks of the Ohio River was known to the Native Americans of western Pennsylvania, but it was not until 1753 that a British officer named George Washington surveyed the area for Gov. Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia. He described the land as well timbered and convenient for building, and with that, the first community at the site of modern-day Pittsburgh was established. Over the next two and a half centuries, Pittsburgh changed from a small settlement in the Pennsylvania wilderness to a city that has flourished because of, and continues to be identified by, its surrounding rivers. The Allegheny, the Ohio, and the Monongahela Rivers have played an inimitable role in the industrial growth of America as they have provided for the movement of coal, lumber, and steel to the Pittsburgh region and beyond. Pittsburghs Rivers highlights the immeasurable contributions these three rivers have made to the area both economically and socially. For centuries, the land at the forks of the Ohio River was known to the Native Americans of western Pennsylvania, but it was not until 1753 that a British officer named George Washington surveyed the area for Gov. Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia. He described the land as well timbered and convenient for building, and with that, the first community at the site of modern-day Pittsburgh was established. Over the next two and a half centuries, Pittsburgh changed from a small settlement in the Pennsylvania wilderness to a city that has flourished because of, and continues to be identified by, its surrounding rivers. The Allegheny, the Ohio, and the Monongahela Rivers have played an inimitable role in the industrial growth of America as they have provided for the movement of coal, lumber, and steel to the Pittsburgh region and beyond. Pittsburghs Rivers highlights the immeasurable contributions these three rivers have made to the area both economically and socially.
Download or read book Monongahela City written by Susan M. Bowers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monongahela City is a gentle, residential community located 17 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. With origins dating back to 1769, it is the oldest settlement in the Monongahela Valley. The town takes its name from the Monongahela River, called "sliding banks" by the ancient Adena people. In the early 1700s, Joseph Parkison and the DeVore brothers built competing ferries on the Monongahela, and pioneers started their westward journeys here. It was in Monongahela City that the turning point of the Whiskey Rebellion occurred, carborundum was discovered, European immigrants arrived to work the mines and mills, and the Anton brothers manufactured miners' lamps that were sold around the world. Monongahela is the birthplace of countless leaders, including the 31st US Army chief of staff, inventor of the Nerf football, an NFL hall of fame quarterback, a winner of the National Book Award, and the first federal judge in Pennsylvania to go through the merit selection process.
Download or read book Monongahela River Navigation Charts written by Barry Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigation Charts issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh, PA District. Chapters: General Notes; Regulations, Section of River & Harbor Act 1917; Extracts from Sections of the River & Harbor Act of 1899; U.S. Coast Guard Information; Characteristics of Lights & Notes; Aids to Navigation & Legend; Tabular Index to Navigation Charts; Map Index to Navigation Charts; Navigation Charts; Monongahela River Terminals; & Monongahela River Small Boat Harbors, Ramps, Landings, etc.
Download or read book The Journal of a Tour Into the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains Made in the Spring of the Year 1803 written by Thaddeus Mason Harris and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling his mistress has rejected him in preference to her newly hatched chicks, the old hound dog decides he must hatch from an egg and learn to say "peep" to regain favor.
Download or read book The Monongahela River written by Bruce Weston and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
