Mosher, Anne E., 1959-

Capital's Utopia Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 / Anne E. Mosher. - 1 online resource (xvii, 249 p.) : ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Experimentation in the Kiskiminetas Valley iron industry -- Apollo's uneasy transition from iron to steel -- The McMurtry, Olmsted, and Eliot plan for Vandergrift -- Settling the Vandergrift Peninsula -- The steel strike of 1901 -- Growing pains for a "model town".

Open Access

9781421429250




Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
McMurtry, George Gibson, 1838-1915.


Iron and steel workers--History.--Pennsylvania--Vandergrift
Steel industry and trade--Social aspects--History.--Pennsylvania--Vandergrift
City planning--History.--Pennsylvania--Vandergrift
Company towns--History.--Pennsylvania--Vandergrift


Vandergrift (Pa.)--Economic conditions.
Vandergrift (Pa.)--Social conditions.
Vandergrift (Pa.)--History.


Electronic books.

F159.V2 / M67 2004

974.8/81