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Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area

The Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area reveals how one region, in a sustained and thunderous blast of innovation, ambition and fire, forever changed America and its place in the world. It is the story of the industrialists and the workers who pushed an infant industry to it ultimate limits and in doing so pushed the world into the Age of Steel.
 
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Roots to Routes, a Guide to Southwestern Pennsylvania

Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area with the help of Routes to Roots an online index of attractions and events that present the unique character of southwestern Pennsylvania.

Explore the region’s rich industrial and cultural heritage along five routes named for the region’s famous rivers – the Ohio, Beaver, Monongahela, Youghiogheny, Allegheny, and the Kiskiminetas. More

 
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Rivers of Steels Tours

Join the Babushkas and Hard Hats Tour to experience a magical mix of immigrants, industry and the sweet taste of the region’s famous “cookie table”, the Carrie Furnace Hard Hat Tour to explore the majesty of the Monongahela Valley’s oldest standing blast furnaces, or set your own schedule with a walking tour of the 1892 Battle of Homestead site and the former Homestead Works using one of the portable DVD players available at the Bost Building. More
 
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Check out our Podcasts

Click here to hear local artists and residents share stories that tell about the region’s cultural and ethnic traditions.
 
 

Write to

Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area
The Bost Building, 623 East 8th Avenue
Homestead, PA 15120

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Phone

Visitor Information
(412) 464-4020 ext. 46

Fax

(412) 464-4417

Climate

Weather in this region of the country varies by season.
Fannie Sellins  

Did You Know?
Fannie Sellins, organizer for the United Mine Workers, was gunned down in Brackenridge on the eve of the Great Steel Strike in 1919. Look for her monument in the Union Cemetery along Freeport Road in Arnold- within the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.

Last Updated: January 29, 2007 at 18:31 EST