
New Deal Community of Norvelt
Lectures in History
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The Coke Ovens
The steel mills want a source of a fuel that burns at a high temperature and at a relatively even temperature for making steel. People who didn't have homes were moving into the coke ovens. We also saw people living in caves in western pennsylvania, or just or living outside in tents. It was really as a great struggle. But a lot of unemployed and a lot of homeless people in western Pennsylvanian.
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