Shelby Iron Company Records 1862-1930

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Shelby Iron Company Records 1862-1930

Contains records of the Shelby Iron Company from 1862 to 1930, including correspondence, directors' minutes, stockholder records, manufacturing records (charcoal reports, stable reports, mining, time books, payrolls by department), commissary records, grist mill toll books, furnace record books, and many other records. It also includes records of a subsidiary, Shelby Manufacturing and Improvement Company, 1890-1923. The virtually complete set of manufacturing records also parallels the birth and growth of the Birmingham iron industry. These records provide the most detailed accounts of Confederate iron making in the west, as well as a good deal of information about the rise (and fall) of industry in the South before and after the Civil War.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6279747

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Shelby Iron Manufacturing Company.

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Lapsley, John W.

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Selma (Dallas Co.), Ala. officer in the Cave Spring Guards. From the description of Papers, 1848-[ca. 1900?]. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36635511 ...

Shelby Iron Works.

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Shelby Iron Company

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Early History (1841-1861) Shelby Iron Company of Shelby, Shelby County, Alabama, furnished almost all the plate iron used in making armor plate used at the Confederate Naval Armory at Selma, Alabama, provided pig iron used in casting cannon at that facility, and provided iron for a number of companies making small arms for the Confederacy. In 1841, Horace Ware, a native of Lynn, Massachusetts, financed by John M. McClanahan, purchased land in what was then Bibb County, A...

Ware, Horace

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