January 15, 2023

Went to the old Bethlehem steel plant in PA with the Essex County club on Jan 2, 2023 and was introduced to this very cool place. It’s an old steel mill, the one that essentially supplied the steel that built much of the WW2 ships and cities throughout the Northeastern US. Once had tens of thousands of people working on a huge campus. It’s decline started in the early 70’s when the lost the bid for the steel for the World Trade Center. Much of the site has been torn down, but what remains are four gigantic blast furnaces. The […]