Tredegar Circa World War I

Stealing from Dogtown Dish’s FaceBook feed for this ‘Throwback Thursday’ post:

Tredegar Ironworks During World War I, Richmond, VA. Date: Circa 1914-1918. “An interior photograph of the machine shop at the Tredegar ironworks shows production taking place during World War I. Though by late in the nineteenth century Tredegar had lost its position as one of the premier southern industrial enterprises, the company survived as a manufacturing entity into the 1980s.” Credit: Encyclopedia Virginia

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  1. Interestingly enough, all of these belts were powered by the water from the James River and Kanawha Canal. Rather than electric motors, water wheels provided the power for Tredegar.

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