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The CFA first met on April 27, 1949. Todd Belfield of Cochran Foundry was the organization's first chairman. Membership reached a high in 1974-75 with 110 sustaining companies and 379 associate members. CFA held regular meetings which focused on educating the people working in member foundries on "how-to" of foundry operations.
[2] [7] She founded Stoudts Brewing Company in 1987 on the grounds of Black Angus Restaurant and Pub and was the sole proprietor. [2] Stoudt was not a homebrewer and knew little about making beer, though she had a background in chemistry and microbiology. [8] She attended the Siebel Institute and had Karl Strauss and Greg Noonan as mentors. [8]
In 1901, piping and heating contractor W. Frank Dowd established the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. [1] The foundry operated with 25 employees and cast iron soil pipes and fittings. [2] The company focused its efforts on iron casting for much of its early history. [1]
Buckeye, named for the Ohio Buckeye tree, was founded in Columbus as the Murray-Hayden Foundry, which made iron farm implements. Finding success in manufacturing iron railroad car couplers , the name changed to the Buckeye Automatic Car Coupler Company in 1891 and Buckeye Malleable Iron and Coupler Company in 1894.
Goldens' Foundry began operations in Columbus, Georgia in 1882 as Goldens' Brothers, founded by 32-year-old Theodore Earnest "Theo" Golden and 24-year-old John Poitevent "Porter" Golden. At the beginning of 1889, Goldens' Brothers was incorporated, with the financial support of Abraham Illges, and renamed Goldens' Foundry and Machine Company.
The Company of Undertakers for the Iron Workes [sic] in New England was founded to finance the project. [3] Winthrop selected a site in Braintree, Massachusetts (now part of present-day Quincy, Massachusetts) as the location of the first Iron Works. Construction began in 1644 and was completed in 1645. [4]
Supply is a small unincorporated community in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States, located around the intersection of US 17 (Ocean Highway) and NC 211 (Southport-Supply Road/Green Swamp Road).
The plant was controlled by the Conant Thread Company until 1869, when J. & P. Coats, a Scottish thread company, assumed control over the manufacturing facilities. [3] Shortly after the takeover, the Coats company expanded the capacities of the plant and constructed additional mills to increase production and facilitate the production of yarn ...