Eureka Iron Works/ First Bessemer Steel Production

Near the corner of Elm Street and Van Alstyne Boulevard
Wyandotte, Michigan

 

 

Key person: Eber Brook Ward, the founder of Eureka Iron Works, the firm that first
produced steel using the Bessemer process that was invented by William Kelly.
State of Michigan Registry of Historic Sites: P25366; Listed September 17, 1957
State of Michigan Historic Marker: Placed here April 4, 1958
Photograph: Ren Farley; February 12, 2006

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