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The Civil War Visitor Center at Tredegar Iron Works is located in the restored pattern building and offers three floors of exhibits, an interactive map table, a film about the Civil War battles around Richmond, a bookstore, and interpretive NPS rangers on site daily to provide programs and to aid visitors.
In 1800, the company was renamed the Tredegar Iron Company, named in honour of the Tredegar Estate at Tredegar House and Tredegar Park in Newport. The company was taken over by the Harfords of Ebbw Vale in 1818. [3] It was expanded in the late 1830s and early 1840s, producing significant volumes of rails, largely for export.
The Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond was the third-largest iron manufacturer in the United States by 1860. [22] During the war it was the primary iron and artillery production facility of the Confederacy. Birmingham, Alabama, although an important industrial center of the South after the war, did not produce iron until 1864. Production from this ...
Tredegar Iron Works; Triple Crossing; V. Valley Railroad Stone Bridge; USCGC Vigorous; USS Vulcan (AR-5) This page was last edited on 3 August 2022, at 01:52 (UTC) ...
This is a list of Confederate arms manufacturers. The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by thirteen Southern states that had declared their secession from the United States.
Joseph Reid Anderson (February 16, 1813 – September 7, 1892) was an American civil engineer, industrialist, politician and soldier.During the American Civil War he served as a Confederate general, and his Tredegar Iron Company was a major source of munitions and ordnance for the Confederate States Army. [1]
The Confederate States manufactured an estimated 84 cast iron 3-inch rifles, at least 61 of them at the Tredegar Iron Works; [9] several appear to be imitations of the U.S. Ordnance Department design. [10] However, the Tredegar guns were manufactured with cast iron and earned a bad reputation for bursting in action. [11]
Neabsco Iron Works; R. Roaring Run Furnace; T. Tredegar Iron Works; W. Washington Iron Furnace This page was last edited on 6 January 2016, at 01:27 ...