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Greenwood Iron Works
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| Name | Greenwood Iron Works |
| Ortssitz | Cincinnati (Ohio) |
| Straße | Walnut Street 123 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisengießerei |
| Anmerkungen | 1868/74: Miles Greenwood, Eigentümer. Auch bezeichnet als "Greenwood & Co.", "Eagle Iron Works" und "Greenwood Pipe Co." (s. letztere zwei, diese an der Walnut Street 383 ... 396, Ecke Canal Street). An den Fassaden des Gebäudekomplex' an der Ecke Walnut/Canal Street ist angeschrieben links "Greenwood & Co." (Rest unleserlich), in der Mitte "Eagle [? ...] & Gas Pipe Works" und rechts und über Eck "Eagle Iron Works Miles Greenwood". |
| Quellenangaben | [Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 110] [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 462] [Commonwealth of Kentucky's 200th birthday (1992)] https://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/miles-greenwood |
| Hinweise | https://markerhunter.wordpress.com: Werksabbildung |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1832 |
Gründung als "Eagle Iron Works" |
| 1843 |
Aufnahme von Eisenbauwerken |
| 1852 |
Anerkennung durch die englische Kommission auf der Ausstellung in New York |
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| Eisenwaren für Gebäude |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: Builders' hardware |
| Öfen/Herde |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: Stoves |
| Temperguß |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: malleable iron |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Is undoubtedly the most prominent manufacturing establishment in Cincinnati, and is fairly entitled to rank among the great manufactories of the United States. It was established by its present proprietor in 1832, and has grown by gradual enlargement until now it covers upward of four acres of ground. Commenced with a view of making principally heavy castings for Mill work, the range of its productions has extended until now it includes small as well as large castings, embracing a greater variety than prcbably any other manufacturing establishment in the country. In the introduction of several important departments of Iron manufactures Mr. Greenwood has been the pioneer in the West. He was among the first to provide patterns for architectural castings, and engage largely in the construction of Iron Building work. Since 1843 this has been a branch of his business, and, with the increased use of Iron for building purposes, has grown in importance, each year adding to the list of buildings erected by him in all the principal cities of the Northwest and Southwest, from Cincinnati and St. Louis to Memphis and New Orleans. In the Eastern States the manufacture of Stoves and of Heating and Ventilating Apparatus is usually made a specialty, and carried on in separate and distinct establishments, but both of these branches bavje for a long time been successfully prosecuted in the Greenwood Foundries. From a thousand to twelve hundred tons of Stove castings are now made here annually, and the Steam Heating Apparatus of Greenwood's manufacture has been applied in a large number of public and private buildings. The Machine Department of these Works is quite extensive, and has turned out every thing that is usually made in Machine shops, and some novelties. Besides stationary and portable steam-engines, planing and saw-mill machinery, turbine wheels, boring tools for oil wells, etc., Portable Gas Works are made to a considerable extent, and the demand for them is increasing. Steam Ploughs have also been cast here that worked quite successfully; one, with six in a gang, having ploughed, with three men and two and one half cords of wood, fourteen acres in a day. Steam Fire Engines were made here, that by their success first demonstrated the practical value of this machine, that is now-employed as an important auxiliary in the Fire Department of all the large cities in the United States. But the most interesting branch of the extensive business carried on in this establishment is the manufacture of Hardware and Malleable Iron Work. For more than twenty years Messrs. Greenwood & Co. have been the leading manufacturers of Hardware in the West, and the list of their productions, at first limited to a few designed for building purposes, has increased and extended, until now their catalogue contains more than fifteen hundred distinct articles, including about thirty varieties of Locks and Latches, from the plainest to the best styles of Yault, Safe, and Bank Locks. Butt Hinges are made here far superior to the English, which are often unequal in thickness, imperfectly jointed, and being light are apt to break when exposed to sudden jars or strains. The English Commissioners to the World's Fair, held in New York in 1852, refer to this establishment in their Report on the Industry of the United States, and say : "Probably the most extensive, and certainly the best conducted and most systematically arranged establishment for the production of miscellaneous Hardware articles in the United States, is that of Messrs. Miles Greenwood & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to Foundries for large castings common to nearly all establishments of this class, the manufacture of the smaller cast-iron articles is fairly and successfully established, and most of those coming under the denomination of Builders Hardware, which a few years ago were almost entirely supplied by this country (England), are now produced here in immense quantities, to supply the constantly necessary requirements of the Western States. "In the important item of Butt Hinges there can be no doubt of the great superiority of those manufactured by Messrs. Greenwood, alike as regards the general quality of the metal as in the adaptibility of strength or weight of material to size. In the finish of the joints great accuracy is obtained, whilst the labor of filing is saved by grinding the joints of the hinges on stones adapted to the purpose, and driven by steam power. Most of the Hardware articles for domestic use, usually manufactured by a large class of the Hardware establishments of this country, are also made in Cincinnati, and the general finish of the articles is certainly of a superior character. Malleable cast-iron is also manufactured by Messrs. Greenwood into a great variety of articles usually made of wrought-iron. These consist of braces or bit-stocks, screw-wrenches, bed-keys, chest-handles, gun-mountings, saddlers' ironmongery and coachware, kettle-ears, thumb-screws, nuts, etc., and have the reputation of being very excellent substitutes for the more costly wrought-iron articles." Mr. Greenwood, we think, was the first in this country to engage largely in the manufacture of Butt Hinges, having commenced it as early as 1840, which precedes, by at least two years, its establishment in Providence, Rhode Island, which is now the principal seat of this manufacture. During the late Rebellion the resources of this great establishment were employed in sustaining the Government, and supplying it with warlike material, in spite of much earnest entreaty on the part of the friends of the Southern Confederacy, and still more formidable obstacles interposed. The Secretary of the Treasury wrote to Mr. Greenwood that his machinery should be employed in manufacturing Arms, and the request was to a loyal man equivalent to a command. For a time all other business was suspended. Rifling machines were built, and smooth bore muskets were rifled at the rate of a thousand a day. Two hundred bronze field guns - six and twelve pounders - were cast in a brief period, besides turning.out a large quantity of gun carriages and other warlike material. At the beginning of the war, General Fre-mont, then commanding in the West, required in great haste a number of anchors for a pontoon bridge, and Mr. Greenwood made and shipped twelve anchors within twenty-four hours after receiving the order. At a later period, when other builders declined the contract, he undertook to construct a turret Monitor, and completed it at a cost of $625.000. The distinguishing mental characteristics of this eminent manufacturer, like those of leaders in other departments, are originality, perseverance, and courage. While Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of Cincinnati he foresaw the advantages that would result from the introduction of Steam Fire Engines and a Paid Fire Department, and he advocated both these measures with persistent energy, notwithstanding the most determined opposition, until he had succeeded in establishing them, for which, afterward, the property holders, as a testimonial of their appreciation of his services, presented him a service of plate of a value of 3.000. When the friends of the Southern Confederacy found that neither their entreaties, nor threats of the loss of Southern custom could prevail upon him to forbear in aiding the Government, by furnishing warlike material, they resorted to intimidation, setting the establishment on fire three several times, involving a loss of 100.000; but the attempt, so far from inciting timidity, tended to arouse his courage and renew his energy. We shall allude to only one other feature in the history of this interesting establishment. In Works so extensive asjhese there are many boys employed, who have never had educational advantages, and for all such Mr. Greenwood has provided a school-room, and employed a teacher, who instructs them two hours every morning. His paternal regard for young employees contrasts most favorably with the barbarous treatment of children, of which there are many sad instances in the history of English manufactories. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 462] |
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