Steel Valley Corridor, April 20, 2019

Our first time out with the bikes since moving to Pittsburgh in March.
We are at The Pump House parking area on the south shore of the Monongahela, near the Rankin Bridge.

We head south-east, away from downtown and towards Kennywood Park.

Our first hill.

Overlook.

Over my shoulder.

Glimpse of Kennywood.

Back at The Pump House.

The silo is dedicated to the employees of US Steel, Homestead.

The place has history.

Transcription of text on this Memorial: "An Address to the Public" Issued by the Advisory Committee, the Knights of Labor and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steelworkers, Homestead, Pa. July 22-23, 1892 "The most evident characteristic of our time and county is the phenomenon of industrial centralization, which is putting the control of each of our great national industries into the hands ozone or a few men and giving these men an enormous and despotic power of their lives and the fortunes of their employees and subordinates- the great mass of the people; [it is] a power which eviscerates our national constitution and our common law...a power which, though expressed in terms of current speech as the right of employers to manage their business[es] to suit themselves, it [coming] to mean in effect nothing less than [the] right to manage the country to suit themselves. "The employees in the mill of Messrs. Carnegie, Phipps & Co., at Homestead, Pa., have built there a town with its homes, its schools and its churches; have for many years been faithful co-workers with the company in the business of the mill, have invested thousands of dollars of their savings in said mill in the expectation of spending their lives in Homestead and of working in the mill during the period of their efficiency ... "Therefore, the committee desires to express to the public as its firm belief that both the public and the employees aforesaid have equitable rights and interests in the said mill which cannot be modified or diverted without due process of law; that the employees have the right to continuous employment in the said mill during efficiency and good behavior without regard to religious, political or economic opinions or associations; that it is against public policy and subversive of the fundamental principles of American liberty that a whole community of workers should be denied employment or suffer any other social detriment on account of membership in a church, a political party or a trade union; that it is our duty as American citizens to resist by every legal and ordinary means the unconstitutional, anarchic and revolutionary policy of the Carnegie Company, which seem to evince a contempt [for] public and private interests and disdain [for] the public conscience..."

The battle of Homestead.
(Homestead Strike)