Tag: industrial heritage

“The Workingmen’s Colony”: Labor Conflict and Historic Preservation in Campbell, Ohio

In August, I visited the town of Campbell, a former hub of Ohio’s steel industry. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company established operations there in 1902, on the banks…

Post date 9th October 2018
Post author By Kaeleigh Herstad
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Marktown: Industrial Heritage at Risk

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I finally got to visit the planned worker community of Marktown in East Chicago this weekend. In 1917, industrialist Clayton Mark hired famed architect Howard Van Doren Shaw…

Post date 25th April 2017
Post author By Kaeleigh Herstad
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