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19 May

Weirton Steel declared bankruptcy

On June 11, 1884, the West Virginia steel industry was born when the state's first Bessemer converter began operation at the Riverside Iron Works in Wheeling. Before that, Wheeling had been the center of West Virginia iron production, making so ma...

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