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Another industrial development on Whiskey Island is the entrance to the salt mine under Lake Erie.
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Bridge over the Cuyahoga River - Cleveland, Ohio.
1943 image courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
Old photograph of Hulett ore unloaders in Cleveland transferring iron ore from a Lake Erie freighter to Pennsylvania Railroad rail cars. A campaign to preserve these giant machines
in Cleveland failed when the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority removed them in 2000. (I would like to commend the Ohio Preservation Alliance for trying.) Though they did place one or two of the nearby on the ground with the goal
of one day restoring one of them. The last two Huletts, unloading coal at a coke plant in South Chicago, Illinois, expired in the early 2000s.
Feb. 2009 image by author
Taconite (a form of iron ore) stockpiles at Cleveland's Whiskey Island on Lake Erie.
1947 image by Berni Rich, Historical American Engineering Record
The Corrigan, Mckinney Steel Co. blast furnaces and ore bridge, Cleveland. This integrated steel works was enlarged and updated as it changed hands to Republic Steel Co., which was merged into LTV Steel, which was absorbed into I.S.G., until that company was taken over by Mittal Steel Co., the current owner of the facility.
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Bird's eye view of Arcelor-Mittal Steel's integrated steel mill in Cleveland. At times the facility has been operated by J&L, Republic, LTV, and ISG. According to Arcelor-Mittal this is
the most productive steel mill in the world.
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One of the two blast furnaces at Arcelor-Mittal's steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio. At the time this photo was taken the USA was in an economic depression, and activity at the furnaces was minimal. The
ore bridge is to the right of the furnace.
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CSX rail yard next to Arcelor-Mittal's Cleveland steel mill.
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Detail of the infrastructure of the Arcelor-Mittal mill along Independence Road in Cleveland.
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The neighborhood around the steel mill in Cleveland.
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Saint Andrew Kim Korean Catholic Church in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, OH.
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Counterweight on one of Cleveland's many drawbridges.
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The Cuyahoga River running through Cleveland was infamous for actually catching on fire in 1969, but there were no flames the day I snapped this photo 40 years later.
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View of Cleveland from the Denison Avenue bridge.
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Saint Theodosius Orthodox Church in Cleveland.
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Industrial Cleveland, Ohio.
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Another one of Cleveland's drawbridges and lift bridges is the West Third Street Bridge.
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Detail of the West Third Street Bridge.
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You are looking out over the west side of Cleveland.
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S.S. Peter and Paul the Apostles Ukranian Catholic Church in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland.
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Independence Road in Cleveland.
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General Motors built their Parma Metal Center plant in Parma, OH in 1948.
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Retiree Benefits - there aren't as many as there used to be, because the U.A.W. has made so many concessions and "givebacks."
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Sunrise over Parma, Ohio.
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Ford Motor Company's Cleveland Casting Plant in Brook Park, Cuyahoga County, Ohio was constructed in 1952 and closed in 2010. Ford moved the casting of the blocks to Mexico.
UAW Local 1250 represented the workers at the Ohio plant, but I doubt the UAW will get to represent the workers in Mexico.
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Overall view of the Ford Cleveland Casting Plant. This foundry has produced engine blocks, bearing main caps, and crankshafts. Cast iron is the wave of the past in the
21st Century auto industry. Many auto parts are now cast aluminum.
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This is the "hot end" of the mill in Lorain, OH. The two blast furnaces were not in operation on the day this picture was taken, and the mill was being idled at this time
due to the economic recession. US Steel has
traditionally made seamless pipe, bar and rod here. For a time USS was in partnership with the Japanese Kobe Steel at this mill, now named Lorain Tubular.
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The Lake Terminal Railroad is the "switcher" railroad at the Lorain mills of US Steel (Lorain Tubular) and Republic
Engineered Products' hot rolled bar plant, shown in the background.
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Ford Motor Company's Ohio Assembly Plant, in Avon Lake, Lorain County, Ohio, was orignally built in 1946 by the Fruehauf Company. In the 1970s Ford began production at the plant. The workers are represented by UAW Local 2000.
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Smokestacks on the Avon Lake plant.
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A neighborhood tavern next to the coal fired Avon Lake Power Plant. The plant was constructed in 1926 by the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company. It closed in 2022.