Bethlehem Steel Plant
1857 - Heritage site
Overview
Once the second largest steelmaker in America, its beams raised the skyscrapers of New York and the Golden Gate Bridge, and its yards built over a thousand warships in WWII. The blast furnaces went cold in 1995; the site is now a casino, arts, and music campus under preserved stacks.
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