Smelter Town El Paso at Kayla Rex blog

Smelter Town El Paso. The residents of smeltertown built and owned their homes, but did not own the land on which their homes were located. Located on the outskirts of el paso and ciudad juárez, smeltertown exemplified the process by which the border became a target for immigrants in search of promising work and a. The american smelting and refining company owned a smelter in el paso that, starting in 1910, refined hundreds of thousands of tons of. Smeltertown (or la esmelda) was the name residents gave to the area surrounding the smelter grounds in el paso, established in the 1800s. Some workers and their families followed the shipping routes across the border, settled in smeltertown, and found work at the asarco smelter or in nearby industries. Primarily, the workers there smelted copper. The story of la esmelda goes back to the founding of the american smelting and refining company (asarco) in el paso in the 1880s. Located about two miles northwest of el paso, smeltertown came into being with the startup of the kansas city consolidated smelting.

Located about two miles northwest of el paso, smeltertown came into being with the startup of the kansas city consolidated smelting. The story of la esmelda goes back to the founding of the american smelting and refining company (asarco) in el paso in the 1880s. Smeltertown (or la esmelda) was the name residents gave to the area surrounding the smelter grounds in el paso, established in the 1800s. Primarily, the workers there smelted copper. The residents of smeltertown built and owned their homes, but did not own the land on which their homes were located. The american smelting and refining company owned a smelter in el paso that, starting in 1910, refined hundreds of thousands of tons of. Some workers and their families followed the shipping routes across the border, settled in smeltertown, and found work at the asarco smelter or in nearby industries. Located on the outskirts of el paso and ciudad juárez, smeltertown exemplified the process by which the border became a target for immigrants in search of promising work and a.

A look at Asarco smelter site through the years

Smelter Town El Paso Some workers and their families followed the shipping routes across the border, settled in smeltertown, and found work at the asarco smelter or in nearby industries. The american smelting and refining company owned a smelter in el paso that, starting in 1910, refined hundreds of thousands of tons of. Located about two miles northwest of el paso, smeltertown came into being with the startup of the kansas city consolidated smelting. The residents of smeltertown built and owned their homes, but did not own the land on which their homes were located. Some workers and their families followed the shipping routes across the border, settled in smeltertown, and found work at the asarco smelter or in nearby industries. Smeltertown (or la esmelda) was the name residents gave to the area surrounding the smelter grounds in el paso, established in the 1800s. Located on the outskirts of el paso and ciudad juárez, smeltertown exemplified the process by which the border became a target for immigrants in search of promising work and a. Primarily, the workers there smelted copper. The story of la esmelda goes back to the founding of the american smelting and refining company (asarco) in el paso in the 1880s.