Description
Founded in 1796, Youngstown, Ohio, was once for a few years a small community hugging the banks of the Mahoning River. Even if the area was once an iron-producing region beginning within the early 19th century, it was once steel that gave the Mahoning Valley and its largest city its signature identity. The images on this volume reflect the overwhelming presence of the steel industry and its enormous affect at the lives of the city’s people. From the built environment to the neighborhoods, public buildings, and its very workplaces, steel was once the lifeblood of this city. At its peak, Youngstown was once the second one-largest steel-producing region in america, and the mills lining the Mahoning River gave the area its sobriquet: “The us’s Ruhr Valley.” Youngstown was once indeed “built on steel.”