Homestead Strike

On the morning of July 6, 1892, on orders of the Carnegie Steel Co., 300 Pinkerton agents attempted to

land near here; strikers, citizens repulsed them. Seven workers, three Pinkertons were killed. 8,000 state militia arrived July 12; by November the ...

Homestead Strike Victims

In these two adjoining cemeteries are buried six of the seven Carnegie Steel Company workers killed during the “Battle of Homestead” on July 6, 1892. The graves of Peter Ferris, Henry Striegel, and Thomas Weldon are here in St. Mary's ...