Sparrows Point

In the 1970s, Bethlehem Steel was forced by a federal consent decree to start hiring women in all operational departments, and at Sparrows Point, a brave…

A unionized workforce was never part of the original plan at Sparrows Point. Neither was racial equity.

How did a swampy peninsula on the Patapsco River get picked as the site for a revolutionary, state-of-the-art steel mill? What was it like to live and…

From the labor gang to the blast furnace, the open hearth to the shipyard, the plate mill to the 68 hot strip mill, what was it like to walk into Sparrows…

Lettuces and herbs soon will be growing on an environmental cleanup site in eastern Baltimore County. The Bethlehem Steel site at Sparrows Point was a…

Steel-making was the throbbing heart of Sparrows Point for more than a century. With the “Bethlehem Steel Legacy Project,” The Baltimore Museum of…