Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Homestead, Allegheny County, dedicated 2003.

SW corner of 9th Ave. & Amity St., at police station, Homestead

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U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1933-45. Visited Homestead July 1933 to discuss New Deal policy. Local authorities barred her from meeting with aggrieved steelworkers in nearby Frick Park. Undeterred, she moved the assembly to federal property here, at the former U.S. post office.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1872 · Allegheny, Washington, Greene counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1924 · Pennsylvania, Western Section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1927 · Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1951 · Pittsburg East, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1951 · Pittsburgh East, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Pennsylvania, 1927, covering the location of Frances Perkins, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Pennsylvania, 1927, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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