Editing Duquesne, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The city of Duquesne was settled in 1789<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/counties/pdfs/Allegheny.pdf |title = Allegheny County - 2nd class |access-date = 2007-05-24 |publisher = [[Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission]]}}</ref> and incorporated in 1891. The city derives its name from [[Fort Duquesne]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a4NIAAAAIBAJ&pg=7226%2C2342598 | title=Town names carry bit of history | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=May 10, 1984 | access-date=October 31, 2015 | last=Ackerman |first=Jan | page=6}}</ref>

Duquesne Works, a productive [[steel mill]] that was part of [[Carnegie Steel Company|Carnegie Steel Corporation]] and later part of [[U.S. Steel]], was the heart and soul of Duquesne during its brightest moments in the early 20th century. Duquesne was home to the largest [[blast furnace]] in the world, named the "Dorothy Six".<ref>The furnace's official name was Dorothy, after Dorothy Worthington, wife of the then-current USS CEO. "#6" was what the furnace was called by everyone who worked in Duquesne, referring to it being the sixth blast furnace built in Duquesne.</ref> [[Bob Dylan]]'s song ''[[Duquesne Whistle]]'' ([[Tempest (Bob Dylan album)|''Tempest'']], 2012) is dedicated to it.

The city's population peaked in 1930, then declined with the Great Depression and [[deindustrialization]] beginning after World War II. Today a stark post-industrial landscape, Duquesne has fewer total residents (5,565 at the 2010 U.S. census) than were the city's mill workers in 1948.<ref>[http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=788 ExplorePaHistory.com, s.v. Duquesne Steel Works] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521033853/http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=788 |date=May 21, 2008 }}</ref> According to the ''[[The Daily News (McKeesport)|McKeesport Daily News]]'', Duquesne has the worst performing schools in the state of [[Pennsylvania]].{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} Duquesne was designated a [[Financially Distressed Municipalities Act|financially distressed municipality]] in 1991 by the state.