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Item Title
Location636 Eleventh Street,
Augusta, GA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER GA-10
Building/structure dates:
1852 initial construction
Significance: This foundry and machine works was the third such operation to be established on the second level of the Augusta Canal. It gradually grew in size under several different proprietors until George R. Lombard merged several operations into the Lombard Iron Works and Supply Company. This establishment became Georgia's and also one of the nation's largest such operations at the turn of the century.
Subjects
Iron IndustryWar (World War II)Foundries
Related Names
American Foundry
Hight & MacMurphy
Lombard Iron Works & Supply Company
Lombard, George R.
MacMurphy, J. T.
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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