Pork House expanded with the construction of the Ardesco Oil Refinery in 1862. The coming of the Civil War in 1861 spurred massive industrialization in northern cities. On March 28, 1870, it was incorporated as the Ninth Ward of Allegheny, and on December 7, 1907, was included in the annexation by the City of Pittsburgh. Originally part of Pine Township and later the southern boundary of Ross Township, this area, adjacent to the City of Allegheny and running south of the new railroad to Jack's Run, was absorbed into McClure Township in 1858. The line would later become part of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago line, leaving Pork House ideally positioned as a freight hub between the rails and the river and garnering the attention of the region’s growing industrial concerns. In 1851, regular passenger service commenced from Allegheny to New Brighton, 27 miles down the Ohio River. Later references to Pork House Row, Pork House Landing and the Pork House mills were evident into the 20th century. Hays Gormly recalled an 1823 wedding journey to Sewickley passing “Outer Depot, Pork House, Jack’s Run and Kilbuck” by carriage. Holmes’ Whirlpool Pork House that would earn the locale its new identity. Hugh Davis, who was later first treasurer of Allegheny City, built a stone public house and whiskey still on his property, but it was the addition of William B. Hugh Davis, an Irish immigrant, purchased land extending from the river bank to the present site of Riverview Park and divided the bottoms of “Davisville” equally among his children. Wartime production of Sherman M-4 tanks served as a temporary lifeline, but by the mid-1950s the Pressed Steel plants were closed and the properties sold as warehouse space. Demand for new rail cars soon ebbed, however, and by World War II, the company was facing the likelihood of failure.
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Schoen was forced out in 1901, and by 1909, working conditions at the McKees Rocks plant had deteriorated to a point that the facility was known as the "Slaughterhouse." Workers went out on strike in July, and a series of bloody confrontations climaxed on August 22, with reports varying between 12 and 23 dead.īy the early 1920s, the Allegheny and McKees Rocks facilities were churning out 45,000 freight cars and more than 750 passenger cars annually. On January 12, 1899, Schoen merged with the Fox Pressed Steel Company and reincorporated as the Pressed Steel Car Company. With demand exploding, Schoen purchased the Allegheny mills of Oliver Iron and Steel and later built an even larger facility in McKees Rocks. On March 26, 1897, he was awarded a contract to build 600 pressed steel cars for the Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, filling the order in just nine months while completing a $500,000 plant expansion. Schoen established the Schoen Manufacturing Company on Cass Street, fabricating freight car parts from pressed steel as a substitute for more commonly used cast iron. Oliver in establishing interest for his patented pressed steel railroad car design. Schoen came to Pittsburgh in 1890, enlisting the assistance of Henry W.
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