Donora Smog Museum
The Donora Smog Museum features a collection of archival materials documenting the Donora Smog of 1948, an air inversion of smog containing fluorine that killed 20 people in Donora, Pennsylvania, United States, a mill town 20 miles south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River.
Donora was home to U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works and its American Steel & Wire plant. The event is sometimes credited for initiating the clean-air movement in the United States, whose crowning achievement was the Clean Air Act.
The museum, which opened October 20, 2008, is located at 595 McKean Avenue near Sixth Street in an old storefront.
The museum has partnered with California University of Pennsylvania to develop a digital collection of primary sources that are archived on site.
See also[]
- Great Smog of 1952
References[]
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection. Overview of the 1948 Donora Smog
- Don Hopey (2008). Museum remembers Donora's deadly 1948 smog: story by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved October 21, 2008.
External links[]
- Environmental disasters in the United States
- History museums in Pennsylvania
- Industry museums in Pennsylvania
- Museums in Washington County, Pennsylvania
- Natural disaster museums
- Smog
- Museums established in 2008
- 2008 establishments in Pennsylvania