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  • Meet the Heroic Docs of the Donora Smog Disaster of 1948

    Meet the Heroic Docs of the Donora Smog Disaster of 1948

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora Death Fog, Donora History
    January 10, 2022

    Get to know some of the physician-heroes of the Donora smog disaster of 1948.

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  • Meet the Toxicologist Who Nailed the Smelter Industry After the Donora Smog

    Meet the Toxicologist Who Nailed the Smelter Industry After the Donora Smog

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora Death Fog, Donora History, Donora Smog Event, Mary Amdur and Donora
    November 5, 2021

    Who was Mary Amdur, and how does she relate to the Donora smog disaster?

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  • Did US Steel Officials Know Dangers of Asbestos Used in Cement City?

    Did US Steel Officials Know Dangers of Asbestos Used in Cement City?

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora History
    August 29, 2021

    Why were asbestos shingles used in Center City? Didn’t US Steel know the dangers?

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  • The Unimaginable Grief of One Mon Valley Family in the early 1900s

    The Unimaginable Grief of One Mon Valley Family in the early 1900s

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora History
    May 11, 2021

    Howard and Iva Dail Hart suffered more than their share of grief working and living in the Mon Valley many years ago, when life was brutally difficult.

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  • How Thomas Edison’s Cement Contributed to Donora’s Storied History

    How Thomas Edison’s Cement Contributed to Donora’s Storied History

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora History
    January 3, 2021

    The Wizard of Menlo Park helped ease a housing crisis in Donora.

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  • What Donora’s Smog Plaque Gets Right … And Wrong

    What Donora’s Smog Plaque Gets Right … And Wrong

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora History, Donora Smog Event
    December 18, 2020

    A prominent bronze plaque at the southern entrance to Donora honors smog victims…and then some.

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  • Blasts (Furnaces) From the Past

    Blasts (Furnaces) From the Past

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora History
    November 28, 2020

    Who was Opechancanough, and what did he have to do with blast furnaces in Donora?

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  • Founder of Donora Biked ‘High’

    Founder of Donora Biked ‘High’

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora History, William Donner
    November 24, 2020

    Who was Prince Wells, and how did he get the great William Donner so blinkin’ high? William Henry Donner, founder of Donora, was an astute, no-nonsense businessman. He became business partners with some of the wealthiest men in history, including Henry Clay Frick and the Mellon brothers, Andrew and Thomas, owners of US Steel. He […]

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  • The Carnegie-Donora Connection, Part 2: Donner Vertically Integrates Donora Mills

    The Carnegie-Donora Connection, Part 2: Donner Vertically Integrates Donora Mills

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora History, William Donner
    November 23, 2020

    The second part of two posts linking Donora’s founder with the industrial titan Andrew Carnegie.

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  • The Carnegie-Donora Connection, Part 1: Frick Shows Carnegie Value of Vertical Integration

    The Carnegie-Donora Connection, Part 1: Frick Shows Carnegie Value of Vertical Integration

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora History, William Donner
    November 18, 2020

    William Henry Donner, founder of Donora, was never a titan in the mold of Rockefeller, Carnegie, or the Mellon brothers were, but he learned a great deal from them all. Including how to build his mills in Donora.

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