West Point Foundry Association collection, 1817-1878.

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West Point Foundry Association collection, 1817-1878.

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Employee time books, wage records, diary, shipping manifests, bills, stock certificates, pattern books, pamphlets, and a few items of correspondence, 1817-1878, from or pertaining to the West Point Foundry Association and the operation of the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, New York.

1 box (7 v., 30 items)

New-York Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7771201

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Foundry organized ca. 1817 for the purpose of supplying ordnance to the U.S. Army; incorporated April 15, 1818 and continued to operate until 1884; built blast-furnace and foundry near Cold Spring Landing, Putnam Co., N.Y., across Hudson River from West Point; also constructed a machine shop and finishing shop on Beach St. in New York City, specializing in marine steam engines; built first commercially successful locomotive in U.S., 1830; machine shop moved to Cold Spring, ca. 1839. ...