Credit: Courtesy of the Victorian Vandergrift Museum and Historical Society
Lacking room to expand his galvanized steel mill Apollo, PA, company president George McMurtry bought a 650-acre farm site several miles downstream on the Kiskiminetas Rive, and here built his new American Sheet and Tin Plate Co. Mill and the town of Vandergrift. In 1909 the company closed the mill to all union activity, and in the years that followed kept out union organizers, with violence if necessary.
