Hight & MacMurphy Foundry, 636 Eleventh Street, Augusta, Richmond County, GA
Summary
Significance: This foundry and machine works was the third such operation to be established on the second level of the Augusta Canal. It gradually grew in size under several different proprietors until George R. Lombard merged several operations into the Lombard Iron Works and Supply Company. This establishment became Georgia's and also one of the nation's largest such operations at the turn of the century.
Survey number: HAER GA-10
Building/structure dates: ca. 1852 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
American Foundry
Hight & MacMurphy
Lombard Iron Works & Supply Company
Lombard, George R
MacMurphy, J T
Sharpe, David
Jorgensen, Robert C
Location
Augusta (Ga.), 33.47194, -81.97277
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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