The new History to Go DVD utilizes portable DVD players to allow users to learn about history on the site where it occurred.  Archival footage, photographs, and documents from the Rivers of Steel Archives supplement a rich narrative, allowing the user to gain more from the experience than they would on a traditional audio or paper based walking tour.

Slovenian polka? Slovak laborers’ songs? Croatian tamburitza? Cherokee tales? German and Bulgarian choirs? African American spirituals and steel drums? Chinese erhu? The Pittsburgh region has them all and more.

The massive J & L/LTV South Side Works dominated Pittsburgh’s South Side for more than 100 years. Then it was gone. The large rolling mills were dismantled and the furnaces scrapped. The site became a moonscape of brick and twisted metal scrap as it waited to be reassembled into the South Side Works, a retail and residential community.

Hit the road with Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area's Route to Roots Driving Guide. Discover the cultural and industrial heritage of Southwest Pennsylvania when the region was the steel making capital of the world.