Knoxville Iron Foundry Complex-Nail Factory and Warehouse - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Knoxville Iron Foundry Complex-Nail Factory and Warehouse - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Knoxville Iron Company was an iron production and coal mining company that operated primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, and its vicinity, in the late 19th and 20th centuries.J. S. Rabun, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Knoxville Iron Foundry Complex – Nail Factory and Warehouse, 6 October 1980. The company was Knoxville's first major post-Civil War manufacturing firm, and played a key role in bringing heavy industry and railroad facilities to the city.Mark Banker, Appalachians All: East Tennesseans and the Elusive History of an American Region (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2010), p. 92. The company was also the first to conduct major coal mining operations in the lucrative coalfields of western Anderson County,Amanda Post and Emily Robinson, National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for Briceville Community Church and Cemetery, October 2002. and helped establish one of Knoxville's first residential neighborhoods, Mechanicsville, in the late 1860s.Old Mechanicsville - History. Retrieved: 3 January 2011. Read more on Wikipedia
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