The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area that would later become Addyston was known as "Coal City" by the 1870s, as it was home to two highly productive coal elevators along the Ohio River. Canadian immigrant Matthew Addy purchased an area of Coal City's riverfront in 1889 and subsequently founded the Addyston Pipe and Steel Company. Addyston was incorporated in 1891. Addyston served as a company town for Addy's foundry, with nearly 80% of the village's homes rented by Pipe and Steel Company workers by the early 1900s. In 1894, the company entered into a cartel with other pipe manufacturers in which they agreed not to compete with each other in order to increase the price of their products. The cartel was the subject of an 1899 US Supreme Court antitrust case, Addyston Pipe & Steel Co. v. United States.
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Then & now
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Stories next door
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