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 strike was broken.
Marker is on East Waterfront Drive 0.7 miles west of E 8th Ave (Pennsylvania Route 837), on the right when traveling west.
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