Tredegar in the Twentieth Century / Then and Now

In the twentieth century, this part of Tredegar was laid out with three machine shops to the right and a series of buildings in front used for horseshoe production. The three machine shops had been constructed in 1872 to manufacture railroad cars and were converted to boiler and machine shops around 1884-1887. By 1887, the buildings in front had been built for the production of horseshoes at Tredegar. The Tredegar Iron Works once covered most of this site, and the area now occupied by a parking lot was once densely packed with machine and horseshoe shops. A World War I-era view shows the horseshoe department in the foreground, the Pattern Building on the right, and Gamble’s Hill on the horizon, now the headquarters of the Ethyl Corporation.

Richmond, Virginia · United States