Homestead, PA - site of the Homestead Strike of 1892

Homestead Strike of 1892

Bost Building - original headquarters of the Homestead strikers

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The "Stacks" at Homestead, Pa - on former site of Homestead Works

Pinkerton Detectives
With the mill ringed by striking workers, Pinkerton agents planned to access the plant grounds from the river. Three hundred Pinkerton detectives[5] assembled on the Davis Island Dam on the Ohio River about five miles (8 km) below Pittsburgh at 10:30 p.m. on the night of July 5, 1892. They were given Winchester rifles, placed on two specially-equipped barges and towed upriver with the object of removing the workers by force. Upon landing, the resulting confrontation resulted in a large mêlée between workers and Pinkerton detectives. Source

Here is the landing area of the Pinkerton detectives by Pump House (the steps leading up from the river have lots of tree growth over them now, and the landing dock is mostly gone).

Bost Building - Homestead Strike Headquarters
During the summer of 1892, the Bost Building served as headquarters for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Using the third floor of the building as a watchtower, steel union officials monitored activities in the mill site and along the Monongahela River.

The Bost Building also served as the base for American and British newspaper correspondents who filed their stories daily for a world that was hungrily following the events of the labor strike that pitted the Carnegie Steel Company against the strongest labor union at the time. More Info
 

The Bost Building, 623 E. Eighth Avenue, Homestead, PA 15120
412.464.4020

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