The Graves of the Workers Still Keeps Watch over the now Silent Mill

[tesarver]

In it's hay day the Steel Mill ran the Blast furnaces 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year producing the steel that built America. Now the mill stands silent as a rusting monument of it's past. St. Michael's Cemetery is on a hill that overlooks the Mill on the Southside of Bethlehem where a lot of the workers and their family are buried. Founded in 1867, like the mill itself stands abandon, a monument of the immigrants that came to work at the mill, and worried about dying from scarlet fever and typhoid as they strived to survive in a new land.

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369A1549_Nik_DxO by tesarver, on Flickr

369A1555_Nik_DxO by tesarver, on Flickr

Taken with the Canon EOS R
Lens: Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8

Comments Welcomed

Tom

[Daisy M]

Like those Tom, mono takes us back to those days.

[Trev B]

Echo David's comments Tom. A reminder of the harsh times of days gone by. Three nice pictures

[Bill53]

Nice set Tom.

[antoeknee]

Hard to imagine what life was like then, very poignant images.

[Farider]

Very good pics Tom, especially with the background story to give them meaning. Excellent.

Ian

[AndyMulhearn]

Nice set Tom and the history puts them in context

[El Sid]

Excellent set and very appropriate presentation. Good to learn the history too.

[Brian Sugden]

Agree with the other comments.

[@imagesBV]

A fabulous set!

[Colin W]

Very nice set of photos in B&W.

[ColytonJohn]

Some great compositions that tell the story well Mono is spot on too.

Cheers,
John

[tesarver]

Thanks everyone for taking the time to look and comment.

Tom