This village got its start when Andrew Carnegie, through the Edgar Thomson Steel Company, leased large tracts of township land that had iron ore. Small-scale mining had taken place here since the late-eighteenth century; Carnegie organized a larger effort to exploit the deposits, beginning in 1880. Ore was removed from a broad open pit, washed t…This village got its start when Andrew Carnegie, through the Edgar Thomson Steel Company, leased large tracts of township land that had iron ore. Small-scale mining had taken place here since the late-eighteenth century; Carnegie organized a larger effort to exploit the deposits, beginning in 1880. Ore was removed from a broad open pit, washed to separate it from clay, and loaded onto railcars.
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