Neabsco Iron Works

The Neabsco Iron Works (alternates: Neabsco Company; Neabsco Iron Foundry ) were located in Woodbridge, Virginia, USA. After abandoning the Bristol Iron Works,[1] John Tayloe I established the Neabsco Iron Foundry around 1737. The business became a multifaceted antebellum industrial plantation. Its activities included as farming, leatherworking, milling, shipbuilding, shoemaking, and smithing, as well as supplying raw materials used as weaponry during the American Revolution.[2] The business grew and expanded with his son, John Tayloe II when, in 1756, he bought the Occoquan Ironworks company, eventually running it as one business with the Neabsco.[3] It was situated on 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) by the Neabsco Creek.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Virginia Writers' Project (1 January 1972). Virginia: a guide to the Old Dominion. North American Book Dist LLC. pp. 345–. ISBN 978-0-403-02195-6. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  2. ↑ "Neabsco Iron Works". Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Vaver, Anthony (30 June 2011). Bound with an Iron Chain: The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial America. Pickpocket Publishing. pp. 185–. GGKEY:CLAJ3TFBGPJ. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  4. ↑ Kamoie, Laura Croghan (2007). Irons in the fire: the business history of the Tayloe family and Virginia's gentry, 1700-1860. University of Virginia Press. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-0-8139-2637-7. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
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