A brief history of Braddock's comeback —
Braddock, Pennsylvania, was the birthplace of industrial baron Andrew Carnegie's steel empire. Carnegie built his first mill, Edgar Thomson Steel Works, in Braddock, stimulating economic growth and prosperity until the industry's decline in the 1970s. Braddock fell on hard times in the wake of the steel industry's decline. Its heyday population of around 20,000 in the 1960s has dried up to around 2,300 today.