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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGT6_virginia-civil-rights-memorial_Richmond-VA.html
On April 23, 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Johns and several fellow students led a strike to protest the deplorable conditions at their racially segregated Prince Edward County school. The Rev. L. Francis Griffin united parents in support of the strik…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGT3_freedmens-bureau-freedmans-bank_Richmond-VA.html
Slavery denied African Americans the education and skills required to exercise the freedoms won by the Civil War. To redress this, Congress created the Freedman Bureau and Freedman's Bank in March 1865. In Richmond, the Bureau and its Bank first o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG8O_civil-war-visitor-center_Richmond-VA.html
You are standing amid the remains of the Tredegar Iron Works, the nation's largest and best-equipped ironworks in 1860. Some Tredegar iron industries operated until the 1950s.
Today, Tredegar's Pattern Storage Building, constructed around 1867,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG7H_making-machines-at-tredegar_Richmond-VA.html
During the 1880's the Tredegar Iron Works made many of the specialized machines necessary in iron production. This was especially true for machinery used in the rolling mills. Two major parts of the stand of rolls you see in the display behind you…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG7G_francis-turbine_Richmond-VA.html
This Francis Type Turbine was used on the Tredegar site in the early twentieth century and is very similar to one of the five turbines located near the building to your left. It was built by the S. Morgan Smith Company of York, Pennsylvania. By tu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG74_neighborhoods-at-tredegar_Richmond-VA.html
[Three] communities grew up around the Tredegar Iron Works: Oregon Hill, Penitentiary Bottom, and Gamble's Hill. Today little remains of these communities. A part of Oregon hill still survives, but Penitentiary Bottom and Gamble's Hill are both go…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG72_adapting-power_Richmond-VA.html
The Raceway and Earlier Uses of the SiteThis raceway brought water from the James River and Kanawha Canal to power waterwheels, and later turbines, that drove machinery. During its earliest use, the raceway contained at least two overshot waterwhe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG6Y_tredegar-rolling-mills_Richmond-VA.html
The Tredegar Iron Works had several rolling mills, which produced rails, bars to be made into spikes, connecting plates for rails, merchant bar iron, and plates. The Tredegar rolling mill's most famous work was the plates made for the ironclad C.S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG6X_industrial-recycling_Richmond-VA.html
Iron companies in the late 1800s began melting down scrap metal from old machines and parts to make new products, just as we recycle materials like aluminum cans today. The "car wheel crusher" that stood here broke up old railroad car wheels so th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMG6W_rail-lines-at-tredegar_Richmond-VA.html
Nearly all of the materials shipped to and from Tredegar moved by railroad after the Civil War. The company's small fleet of industrial switcher locomotives moved car loads along the spur lines that connected Tredegar to the outside world. Over tw…