Lackawanna Steel Company

Lackawanna Steel Company
Company typePublic
Industrysteel manufacturing, railroads, coal mining
Founded1840
Founder
Defunct1922 purchased; 1982 ceased operation
Headquarters
Scranton, Pennsylvania (1840–1902)
Lackawanna, New York (1902–1982)
Area served
United States
Key people
ProductsSteel, coke
ServicesRail transport
ParentBethlehem Steel after 1922
SubsidiariesDelaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

The Lackawanna Steel Company was an American steel manufacturing company that existed as an independent company from 1840 to 1922, and as a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel company from 1922 to 1983. Founded by the Scranton family, it was once the second-largest steel company in the world (and the largest company outside the U.S. Steel trust).[1] Scranton, Pennsylvania, developed around the company's original location.[2] When the company moved to a suburb of Buffalo, New York, in 1902, it stimulated the founding of the city of Lackawanna.[3]

  1. ^ "New Steel Plant Started", The New York Times, December 24, 1902.
  2. ^ Federal Writer's Project, Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State, 1940.
  3. ^ Goldman, High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York, 1984.