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Homestead
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or a borough of Allegheny county, Pennsylvania,. U.S.A., on the Monongahela river, 8 m. S.E. of Pittsburg. Pop. (1890) 7911; (1900) 12,554, of whom 3604 were foreign-born and 640 were negroes; (estimated 1906) 15,486. It is served by the Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie railways, and by the short Union Railroad, which connects with the Bessemer & Lake Erie and the Wabash railways. The borough has a Carnegie library and the C.M. Schwab Manual Training School. Partly in Homestead but chiefly in the adjoining borough of Munhall (and therefore not reported as in Homestead by the U.S. Census) is one of the largest plants in the United States for the manufacture of steel used in the construction of bridges and steel-frame buildings and of steel armour-plate, and this is its chief industry; among Homestead's other manufactures are glass and fire-bricks. The water-works are owned and operated by the municipality. Homestead was first settled in 1871, and. it was incorporated in 1880. In 1892 a labour strike lasting 143 days and one of the most serious in the history of the United States was carried on here by the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of the United States against the Carnegie Steel Company. The arrival (on the 6th of July) of a force of about zoo Pinkerton detectives from New York and Chicago resulted in a fight in which about io men. were killed, and to restore order two brigades of the state militia.
were called out. See Strikes And Lockouts.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Homestead'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/homestead.html. 1910.
