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Richmond, Virginia: Rifles Tallassee Tallassee, Alabama.58 caliber percussion muzzle-loading carbines 500 Tarpley, Garrett & Co (Confederate Arms Factory) Greensboro, North Carolina: Tarpley carbine: ca. 400 Tarpley carbines George Todd Austin, Texas: Rifles Tredegar Iron Works: Richmond, Virginia: 1841
Francis Thomas Glasgow, the father of Virginia writer and suffragist Ellen Glasgow, was a manager at Tredegar Iron Works, and Joseph Reid Anderson was her maternal uncle. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] By 1873, Tredegar Iron Works was employing 1,200 workers and was a profitable business.
Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RFAAP) is an ammunition manufacturing complex for the U.S. military with facilities located in Pulaski and Montgomery Counties, Virginia. The primary mission of the RFAAP is to manufacture propellants and explosives in support of field artillery, air defense, tank, missile, aircraft, and naval weapons systems.
The following list of modern armament manufacturers presents major companies producing modern weapons and munitions for military, paramilitary, government agency and civilian use. The companies are listed by their full name followed by the short form, or common acronym, if any, in parentheses. The country the company is based in, if the ...
Bellona Foundry supplied much ordnance to the Army and Navy of the United States throughout the antebellum period. The Arsenal repaired small arms and engaged in a few other functions until 1832; thereafter, it only received and stored cannon. The Army removed the garrison to Fort Monroe in 1833 but left a single ordnance sergeant as a caretaker.
The 18th century historic home in Lawrenceville rediscovered by the Blick family last year made Preservation Virginia's top 10 2024 endangered list. As soon as Richie Blick received the good news ...
The Charlottesville Woolen Mills is an historic industrial site in Charlottesville, Virginia on which there was a working mill from the 1790s the 1960s. [1] The mills were built, in part, on property once owned by Thomas Jefferson. Company leadership was unusual in offering assistance to employees of all ages to purchase properties for homes ...
Armstrong Knitting Factory; B. Congregation Beth Israel (Charlottesville, Virginia) C. ... West Main Street Historic District (Charlottesville, Virginia) Y. Young ...