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Category Archives: “The Rust Belt”, Vol. 20

“Vol. 20, Chap. 1- The Keweenaw

The “Rust Belt” is a term used to refer to what was the heavy industrial heart of the United States in the 20th Century, spreading from Pennsylvania west and north towards Minnesota.  Coal and mineral mining, steel production and heavy manufacturing dominated the economy until the latter part of the 1900’s when a shift to […]