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carnkie
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16 years ago

The Tredegar Iron Works in Virginia played a major role in supplying iron and ordnance to the Confederacy during the Civil War. A couple of interesting photos from 1865.

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Guns and ruined buildings near the Tredegar Iron Works.
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The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

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Vanoord
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16 years ago

Welsh miners?

The name suggests settlers from South Wales!

Hello again darkness, my old friend...

carnkie
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16 years ago

From Wiki.

The foundry was named in honor of the town of Tredegar, Wales, United Kingdom, where iron works of the same name were constructed in the early 1800s, and which was also the hometown of Rhys Davies, the man originally in charge of constructing the facility. In 1833, a group of Richmond businessmen and industrialists hired Davies, then a young engineer, along with a number of fellow iron workers from the Welsh valley town, to construct the furnaces and rolling mills that later became the Tredegar Iron Works and Belle Isle Iron Works.

Rhys Davies died in Richmond in September 1838 as a result of stab wounds received in a fight with a workman and was buried on Belle Isle in the James River.

Should have added the ref.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tredegar_Iron_Works#Tredegar_survives_the_evacuation_of_Richmond

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.