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America Built the Largest Steel Mill on Earth. Then Erased It

In 1943, Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point employed 31,523 workers and produced one fifth of the entire United States Navy. It was the largest steel mill on earth. Workers breathed manganese dust and worked in 200-degree heat to armor the destroyers and carriers that won World War II. The company called their deaths cardiac arrests. In 2001, Bethlehem Steel filed for bankruptcy and cut off health insurance for every retiree. The pensions were gutted. The workers who had given the furnaces thirty and forty years of their lives were left with nothing. The plant changed hands five times in ten years — each transaction a profit for someone, each one another extraction from a dying site. The L blast furnace — 320 feet tall, once producing 10,000 tons of steel per day — was imploded on a Tuesday in January 2015. It took four seconds. Today there is an Amazon warehouse where the furnaces stood. This is the story of Sparrows Point. This is the story America forgot to tell itself. Bethlehem Steel | Sparrows Point | American Industrial History | Rust Belt | Lost America This channel covers the forgotten industrial history of America — the facilities, the workers, and the stories that were classified, buried, or simply never told. Subscribe if you want the history they didn't teach you.