OTHER SITES OF INTEREST (EAST)

Ross Iron Furnace – One of many early 19th Century stone furnaces accessible to the public (see http://www.oldindustry.org). Ross Mountain Rd., near Ligonier, Fairfield Township.

Coal and Coke Heritage Center – Excellent small museum telling the story of the region’s coal and coke industry and the workers and patch towns that served them. Penn State – Fayette, Lemont Furnace, Pa.

Bill Sylvis – A marker, honoring the leader of Iron Molders Union and the post-Civil War National Labor Union, outside Keith Hall, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Vandergrift – Built in 1895 by the owner of Apollo Iron and Steel company as a “model city:’ Laid out by renowned designer, Frederick Law Olmsted, the historic district is on Lincoln, Sherman, and Custer Avenues.

United Mine Workers Education Chautauquas – A marker, honoring 1920s labor educational efforts, is near Borough Bldg., 207 5th Ave., Hastings .

Windber Strike for Union – The site of a hardfought battle for miners’ union recognition in 1922- 23, including a massive tent city of evicted miners and families, Rt. 601 and Rt. 56, Somerset Co.

Railroad Shopmen’s Strike – A marker, in honor of the 300,000 workers striking in 1922 to preserve their union, located at Blair-Bedford Central Labor Council, 302 E. Wopsononock Ave., Altoona.

Lilly Anti-Klan Memorial – In this community near Altoona, local working people drove 400 KKK supporters from town in 1924, with shooting following a cross burning. The episode is depicted in metal relief, 513 Cleveland St., Lilly.

Rossiter Injunction – A marker, commemorating the 1927 soft coal strikers fighting wage reductions and the draconian repression of free speech and assembly. Schaffer Field, Central St. at West Side St., Rossiter.

Penn-Craft – An experimental community for coal miners and unemployed, built 1937-43 by the American Friends Service Committee. Marker located on Penncraft Rd. (Rt. 672) at Pencraft Circle 2 Rd., West of Rt. 166 SW of Republic, Luzerne Township.

Norvelt – One of many Eleanor Roosevelt New Deal homestead projects with 250 model homes, originally built self-sufficiently by tenants/owners. Marker located at V.F.W., Mt. Pleasant Road, Norvelt.

Linden Hall -The United Steelworkers purchased the property and mansion of coal and coke baron Philip Cochran and converted it to a labor education center to train future leaders of the union, 432 Linden Hall Road, Dawson.