The Bethlehem Steel Legacy Project is a multifaceted endeavor to preserve the history of the Baltimore industrial giant Bethlehem Steel and the people who worked there. Bethlehem Steel’s history spans from its beginnings at Sparrows Point in 1887 to the company’s 2002 bankruptcy and subsequent closure in 2012. In 2019, the Baltimore Museum of Industry (BMI) partnered with Tradepoint Atlantic, the new owners and managers of the former Bethlehem Steel site, to embark on this multi-year community engagement project. This resulted in the creation of the exhibitions Fire & Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Bethlehem Steel, Shuttered: Images from the Fall of Bethlehem Steel, and Women of Steel. It would also go on to include the creation of a legacy brick garden, the award-winning podcast Sparrows Point: An American Steel Story, the From Point to Point blog, several published articles, the creation of Mill Stories:...
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May 01 2022
Bethlehem Steel Legacy Project, Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, Maryland, in partnership with Tradepoint Atlantic
Bethlehem Steel Legacy Project
, Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, Maryland, in partnership with Tradepoint Atlantic
. Deborah R. Weiner and Joseph Abel, Curators; Claire Mullins, Director of Marketing; Beth Maloney, Director of Interpretation; Alexis Ojeda-Brown, Marketing Coordinator; Jessica Celmer, Education Manager; Mike Kuethe, Education Coordinator, Auni Gelles; Community Programs Manager, and Jane Woltereck, Director of Collections and Archives. Opened April 2019, ongoing. https://www.thebmi.org/stories/bethlehem-steel-legacy-project/.
Morgan Miller-Scarborough
Morgan Miller-Scarborough
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The Public Historian (2022) 44 (2): 122–126.
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Morgan Miller-Scarborough; Bethlehem Steel Legacy Project, Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, Maryland, in partnership with Tradepoint Atlantic. The Public Historian 1 May 2022; 44 (2): 122–126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2022.44.2.122
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