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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.
This is a list of ironworks that have been established within Wales, United Kingdom. Most were established during the nineteenth century in industrialising Southeast Wales with a smaller number in Northeast Wales, West Wales and elsewhere.
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.
The previous analysis is supplemented by the fact that company's buildings appeared on the 1832 Ordnance Survey map as 'Tredegar Iron Works'. Jones didn't state when the name of the new town was shortened to 'Tredegar'. But when its name was shortened, it resulted in the existence of two Tredegars, one at each end of the estate: one at the top ...
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]
Tredegar Ironworks may refer to either of the two similarly named nineteenth-century ironworks: Tredegar Iron Works , Virginia, United States Tredegar Iron and Coal Company , South Wales