A Mill in Micro: The 1942 Carrie 3 Team with Rivers of Steel

Program Type:

History

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

This presentation will focus on the lives and backgrounds of the Carrie Blast Furnace #3 team who set a world record for iron production in a single month in January of 1942. While the record is important (and the first of many in the Pittsburgh district during the war), the great stories are in the lives of the workers. In several cases, they are very indicative of the developments that went on in the steel industry between 1900 and 1940 as well as changes in the social fabric of Pittsburgh in those years.

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About the presenter:

After working as a high school history teacher, Barney Terrell switched careers to museum work in 2013 with a position at the Campbell (CA) Historical Museums. Since arriving in Pittsburgh in 2019, he have worked with Rivers of Steel as a tour guide and site manager at Carrie Furnaces. He is also a tour facilitator in Clayton at The Frick Pittsburgh. His first book, Cold Wrath: The 1896 Rampage of James C. Dunham was published by Genius Books in 2021.