Title: Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works, Inc., Progress Report

Date/Date Range :   1961, 1963

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains the Progress Report of the Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works, Inc., for a "Revised Electric Wiring Layout" . It includes before and after photographs of the wiring layouts along with blueprints and reports about required up-grading by Truitt Siler and company president George H. McDowell.

Call number: MS-3126

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

Collection purchased by UTK Special Collections Library in March 2007.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works, Inc., Progress Report, MS-3126. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of one folder.

Taken from a fact sheet within the collection, written in January 1963:

This plant "has been operated almost continuously since 1883 under three different company names:-Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works, 1883-1914; Johnson City Foundry and Machine Company, 1914-1946; Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works, Inc. 1946-to date. On or about 1925 steel fabrications were begun and the registered trade name of Tennessee Bridge & Steel Company is used in connection with the Structural Steel Division."

"The plant was first located near Ashe Street Courthouse in about the middle of what is now the Clinchfield Railroad tracks. It was first serviced by a railroad company bought out by the Southern Railway and in 1907 or 1908 the plant was moved to its present location to provide for the expansion of the Clinchfield Railroad. Apparently the plant was first started in order to serve the old ET&WNC Railroad running from Johnson City to Cranberry, which road was opened up to haul iron ore from Cranberry mines to the old Cranberry furnace Company in Johnson City. In a constantly growing area, the demands for the services of the plant have continued although there have been many changes in the type of service which has been required."

"The plant has served during war and peace and during World War I shipped many items to Muscle Shoals which we believe is now a part of the TVA System. During World War II, most of its products went into the expansion of the Aluminum industry and the plant was the first in Upper East Tennessee to receive an Army-Navy E for excellence in its production. It also received the Minute-Man Flag for the participation in the U. S. Bond sales, and both the men and the plant have received awards for other participations such as the United Fund Drive, service to Veterans of Foreign Wars, etc."

In 1987, the company faced foreclosure and was thus sold to Tenetek. The majority of its papers reside at the East Tennessee State University, Archives of Appalachia, in Johnson City, Tenn.

This collection contains the Progress Report of the Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works, Inc., for a "Revised Electric Wiring Layout" . It includes before and after photographs of the wiring layouts along with blueprints and reports about required up-grading by Truitt Siler and company president George H. McDowell.

• Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works, Inc.
• Johnson City (Tenn.)
• Foundries -- Tennessee.
• Iron industry and trade -- Tennessee.