Jul 7, 2024 · Founded in 1906, Gary, Indiana was once a prosperous steel town, but then jobs left, crime skyrocketed, and half of its population fled. About 20 percent of the town's buildings are now completely abandoned.

Feb 4, 2024 · Inside America's deserted steel town 'Scary Gary' - where 10,000 buildings sit abandoned after HALF the population fled - as it turns to foreign investors to save its dying mill which built the...

The Gary Works on the shore of Lake Michigan was the world’s largest steel mill and the city was built to serve it. The city was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation.

May 3, 2024 · It’s hard to imagine how a building as grand as the City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana, could ever become abandoned. Completed in 1926, the spectacular nine-story complex also included,...

Feb 21, 2023 · After covertly purchasing almost 10,000 acres of swampland on the south shores of Lake Michigan, U.S. Steel immediately started construction of the sprawling Gary Works, enticing workers from across the country with the promise of jobs in the new, state-of-the-art mill.

Mar 7, 2023 · First came the mill, workers slept outside the facility, in tents and make-shift shacks as the town developed. The U.S Steel company provided many funds for the creation of the town. They had funded housing for the workers, a town hall, and many other buildings.

Apr 10, 2022 · Gary was the site of civil unrest in the steel strike of 1919. During this strike the loss of workers had the buissness in shambles causing owners to act quickly. Elbert Henry had over 3000 African Americans from the South of Gary to pick up the jobs from the strike workers.

Once a thriving metropolis with only growth, lakeshore, and steel mills on its horizon, Gary has become an isolated city abandoned by those who made it and those who invested in that growth. What happened to change the landscape, both physically …

Loss of digits and limbs, men crushed by railroad cars, decapitations — more than five hundred steel workers have perished in Gary since 1906. Rumors persist that many of those workers still haunt the region. One of the most feared fates in the mills was of falling into “the Heat”: the vats or “ladles” of molten metal.

Apr 15, 2022 · Today, Gary is a city marred by the ages-old segregation and has yet to replace its steel-dependent economy with something more sustainable. As a result, the city is not mismanaged or in rubble- rather, blocks and blocks of housing, commercial areas, and industry have been abandoned.