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that year and 6,392 tons the next. Rather than travel back and forth from South Pueblo, workers began to settle around the plant. As the labor force grew, so to did the number of makeshift housing. By 1882 CC&I had surveyed the town of
Bessemer, but a plat was not filed until 1886. The 1886 plat
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Streator Avenue in the south. It notes that Lake Minnequa and the area surrounding the former Edison School and Eilers Smelter site are included. This area was historically known as Laibach (also as Bojon Town) and more recently as Eilers Heights. Parts of Minnequa Heights are also
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Bessemer's growth stalled in the 20s and 30s, when CFI&I's profits were at an ebb. By the 1960s the neighborhood had entered a steep decline. Few buildings were constructed in
Bessemer after 1960 due to the financial state of CF&I, with only 112 new buildings erected between 1961–2010. The
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Bessemer is almost completely flat with the exception of a slight gain in elevation towards the southern section of the neighborhood. A depression was transformed into a man-made lake, now known as Lake
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was greatly expanded from the unfilled 1882 plat and encircled South Pueblo. The 1886 Pueblo City
Directory lists 188 identified residents in Bessemer that year. In 1887 CC&I refiled an amended plat that reduced the size of Bessemer to that of the unfilled 1882 plat.
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is roughly bounded by South Pueblo to the north (What is now the neighborhood of Mesa
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Bessemer's first city hall was built by the CC&I at the southeast corner of
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