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In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh.
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Ella Whitman, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
As the longtime restaurant writer for The Birmingham News and the Alabama Media Group, I was blessed to have a seat at the chef’s counter and to get to share the story of Birmingham’s transformation from a steel town into one of the South’s great food cities.
—Bob Carlton, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
Growing up in one of America’s fastest-shrinking cities—the flood-prone steel town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania—Tatiana Triplin didn’t have much of a choice but to find a musical community online.
—Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026
Gary is a steel town, and the industry is critical to its economy, but CBS News Chicago Investigators has exposed the significant industrial pollution in Northwest Indiana which partially stems from the steel production facilities in the area, as well as the health impact for people living there.
—Tara Molina, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
The Financial Times continued its series of reports on the affordability crisis in America, using Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – a former steel town – to highlight the yawning gap between rich and poor.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
Port Talbot was—and still is, just about—a steel town, but the Hopkins family were bakers.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Nearly fifty years ago, the city of Clairton was the backdrop for the movie Deer Hunter, which depicted the impact of the Vietnam War on a group of lifelong friends in a working-class steel town.
—Salena Zito, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2025
She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in 1931 in the midwestern steel town of Lorain, Ohio, to parents who, like so many millions of Black Americans in that era, had fled the racial violence of the South in search of safety and economic opportunities farther north.
—Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
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Ella Whitman, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
As the longtime restaurant writer for The Birmingham News and the Alabama Media Group, I was blessed to have a seat at the chef’s counter and to get to share the story of Birmingham’s transformation from a steel town into one of the South’s great food cities.
—Bob Carlton, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2026
Growing up in one of America’s fastest-shrinking cities—the flood-prone steel town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania—Tatiana Triplin didn’t have much of a choice but to find a musical community online.
—Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026
Gary is a steel town, and the industry is critical to its economy, but CBS News Chicago Investigators has exposed the significant industrial pollution in Northwest Indiana which partially stems from the steel production facilities in the area, as well as the health impact for people living there.
—Tara Molina, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
The Financial Times continued its series of reports on the affordability crisis in America, using Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – a former steel town – to highlight the yawning gap between rich and poor.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2025
Port Talbot was—and still is, just about—a steel town, but the Hopkins family were bakers.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Nearly fifty years ago, the city of Clairton was the backdrop for the movie Deer Hunter, which depicted the impact of the Vietnam War on a group of lifelong friends in a working-class steel town.
—Salena Zito, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2025
She was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in 1931 in the midwestern steel town of Lorain, Ohio, to parents who, like so many millions of Black Americans in that era, had fled the racial violence of the South in search of safety and economic opportunities farther north.
—Clint Smith, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
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“Steel town.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steel%20town. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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