Homestead, on the Monongahela River, in Pennsylvania, 8 miles SE. of Pittsburgh by rail, is the main seat of the great iron and steel works of the Carnegie Company, employing 40,000 men. The labour riots of 1892 amounted almost to civil war. Pop. of the 'post-village' (1880) 592; (1890) 7911.
Homestead
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 757
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