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Homestead Town
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Homestead Town used to be the story of a boom town
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Charts position
» highest in charts: # 120 (47,289 songs currently listed in Country)
» highest in sub-genre: # 18 (2,471 songs currently listed in Country > Bluegrass)
» highest in sub-genre: # 18 (2,471 songs currently listed in Country > Bluegrass)
About the song
Homestead Town used to the be story of a glory boom town. Beginning in the 1880's thousands of immigrants came to Homestead, Pa. to toil in the fire, heat, and smoke making the steel for America's skyscrapers and wars. They fought Frick and the Pinkertons, and political corruption to win rights and fair pay for workers in America. The Homestead Steel works and Homestead Town boomed for 125 years. Closed in 1986, the historic Homestead Works was replaced by a shopping mall and low wage part-time jobs. The stores, bars, and churches of Homestead Town sit abandoned. The glory of the Homestead workers and their families lives on.