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Lackawanna Steel's main office building, shortly after completion. Building architect was L.C. Holden of New York City. Note worker hiding behind tree while photo was taken.

1910 sales brochure.

General view of Plant looking southwest. From 1910 sales brochure.

Early view of Lackawanna Steel Company looking north showing the coke ovens, ship canal, and blast furnace facilities (Courtesy Frank Rozwood Photo Collection).

U.S. Government-installed wood breakwater protecting shipping in the South Harbor (Courtesy Frank Rozwood Photo Collection).

The Lackawanna Steel Company

A 1910 sales brochure highlights the company's history and the features of the new plant:

"The Corporation known as the Lackawanna Steel Compnay was organized in 1902, and acquired the properties of the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company. The latter company was the outgrowth of a previous consolidation composed of iron and steel companies, the oldest of which, the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, located at Scranton, Pa., in 1840. The origin of what finally developed into the present corporation had its beginnings over seventy years ago."

"The plant of the Lackawanna Steel Company is located on a tract of land of about 1,000 acres, along Lake Erie at and beyond Stony Point, starting from the line of the city limits of Buffalo, N.Y. Its average width is 3,000 feet and it is about three miles long."

"Besides the very large plant, including the manufactories of the various products, there are two large villages on this tract owned by the Steel Company."

"In addition to this vast property, the Company owns extensive ore and coal mines in Pennsylvania, and holds large interests in iron ore properties in Lake Superior and Mesabi ranges in Northern Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin; also has iron mines in Port Henry, N.Y."

"The location of the works affords unlimited facilities for transportation on the Great Lakes. A large canal, extending into the grounds of the plant, 4,000 feet long, 200 feet wide, and 23 feet deep, has a dock frontage of 8,000 feet for receiving and shipping material. These docks are amply protected by a government breakwater, 2,500 feet long, making a perfectly safe harbor."

"Buffalo stands second in the United States as a Railroad Center. Sixteen Railroads and Trunk Lines enter the city."

"The Steel Company has convenient track connection with all these roads through the South Buffalo Railroad, which provides ample accommodations for prompt movement of freight by land transportation."

"There are also ten miles of narrow-gauge track within the plant limits, and thirty-two narrow-gauge locomotives are in constant operation, transferring material between the various mills."