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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.
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]
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 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]
The Tredegar iron works, and others in the Sirhowy Valley, were among those for which a suitable transport connection was urgently needed.Samuel Homfray, Richard Fothergill and Matthew Monkhouse were the co-founders of the Tredegar Ironworks, and a lease of 20 March 1800 from the landowner Sir Charles Morgan granted them not only the right to extract coal and iron ore from his land, but to ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Tredegar Works may refer to: Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia; Tredegar ...
William Aubrey (1759–1827) was a Welsh engineer who designed and built steam-powered machines, including his work as superintendent at the Tredegar iron works and 40-year employment by Samuel Homfray. [1] At the Aberdare Ironworks and Penydarren Ironworks, he was a consulting engineer. [2]