Until 1897, the Lower Works at Woods Run in the city of Allegheny (now Pittsburgh's North Side) included rolling mills.

205, granting the company, "its successors and assigns, the right to construct, maintain and use an overhead skip hoist across south Twelfth street with an approximate clearance of 14' for the purpose of conveying iron and steel products from the building of said corporation situated on the east side of South Twelfth street to another building situated on the west side of South Twelfth street, Seventeenth ward, Pittsburgh, Pa."[2] Around 1951, the Berry Motors Company of Corinth, Mississippi was acquired and made the Berry Division of Oliver Iron and Steel.

Contemporary newspaper accounts mentioned threats of plant closure at the time unless the strike ended.

The Berry Division was subject to an antitrust lawsuit filed on June 11, 1956[4][5] At about the same time, the fastener business was sold to Pittsburgh Screw and Bolt Company,[6] and the pole line hardware business was merged into the Oliver Electric Company of Battle Creek, Michigan.

Pittsburgh City Planning Department aerial photos from 1962 show the land cleared to dirt.