Harvard Tower controls the crossing of the N&SS, PRR and W&LE

A look across the PRR and N&SS diamonds.

The earliest Cleveland area rolling mills were established in Newburgh in 1857.

• 1858 - Stone, Chisolm & Jones Company produces iron rails

• 1861 - First blast furnace erected

• 1863 - Reorganized as Cleveland Rolling Mill Company

• 1868 - First steel produced in Newburgh using Bessemer process

• 1879s - Production expanded into wire products

• 1881 - Company builds Central Furnace along Cuyahoga River

• 1899 - Merges into American Steel & Wire

• 1901 - US Steel organized and AS&W becomes a subsidiary

Image from Cleveland Public Library, labeled as "Newburgh Rolling Mills in the Flats".

Newburgh Works 1889 Sanborn Map