MADE IN HAMILTON
20TH CENTURY
INDUSTRIAL TRAIL

SITE 4
STEELTOWN

Look to your left across Burlington Street. The large factories that filled this area in the early 20th century gave Hamilton its nickname "Steeltown". The former Deering Harvester plant sites stretched north from Burlington Street along the east side of Sherman Avenue. The Hamilton Blast Furnace Company (later Stelco-Site 7)constructed their first blast furnace next to the waterfront directly behind Harvester. You can see Stelco's sprawling industrial complex on this site today. The western portion of the giant Harvester site was once home to the Oliver Chilled Plow Company (Site 6) of South Bend, Indiana. The Oliver buildings still stand, but you cannot see them from the bus. They are best viewed at the foot of Hillyard Street.