The Monongahela of Old
Author : James Veech
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Fayette County (Pa.)
ISBN :
Author : James Veech
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Fayette County (Pa.)
ISBN :
Author : JAMES. VEECH
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781033699454
Author : Arthur Parker
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271018751
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.
Author : Robert S. Dorsett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 146713466X
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.
Author : James Veech
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781333476458
Excerpt from Monongahela of Old: Or Historical Sketches of South-Western Pennsylvania to the Year 1800 Ante-indian Inhabitants - Old Forts; their forms; sites; localities - Mounds - Indian Towns - Indians Graves - Curious chain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James Veech
Publisher :
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fayette County (Pa.)
ISBN :
Author : John Hoerr
Publisher : Autumn House Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1932870318
Hoerr's first novel but fourth book paints a vivid portrait of labor relations in industrial McKeesport.
Author : James Veech
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781333270162
Excerpt from The Monongahela of Old: Or Historical Sketches of South-Western Pennsylvania to the Year 1800 Judge Veech was a high minded gentleman of the old school; his dignified manner and profound legal ability commanded the respect of all. He retired from active life in 1872, and spent his later years in the congenial pursuits of history and literature in which he ac quired fame. In later years he made his home at Emsworth, on the Ohio river, six miles below Pittsburgh, on the Ft. Wayne road, where he died December 11, 1879, and his death was the occasion of marked sor row and respect of the bar and public of Pittsburg as well as his many friends in. Uniontown. He was buried in Union cemetery at Uniontown. He was survived by his wife and five daughters. His only son, David Henry Veech, having died in 1874, leaving a son, James Veech. This last named was an only son back through five generations, viz: James, of David Henry, of James, of David, of James. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James Veech
Publisher : Clearfield Company
Page : pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 1989-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780685604311
Author : Michael Chabon
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453234098
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s “astonishing” debut novel, about a son’s struggle to find his own identity and integrity (The New York Times). Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Moonglow, and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, is one of the most acclaimed talents in contemporary fiction. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published when Chabon was just twenty-five, is the beautifully crafted debut that propelled him into the literary stratosphere. Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn’t want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father’s mobbed-up world. A New York Times bestseller, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh was called “astonishing” by Alice McDermott, and heralded the arrival of one of our era’s great voices. This ebook features a biography of the author.