Wheeling Steel Corporation was formed in 1920 when three companies merged together. It became the third-largest steelmaker in the U.S. and employed over 17,000 workers in the 1920s.

Wheeling Steel made steel pipes, tin cans, lunch pails, stoves, and steel sheets, among other items. One of its factories made the first steel pipe in the U.S.

The company built a housing community called Coketown for workers near its coke plant. By 1960, Wheeling Steel's plants stretched 30 miles along the Ohio River and owned coal mines, living up to its slogan “From Mine to Market.”

In 1968, it merged with Pittsburgh Steel to become Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, which eventually shut down in 2013.