Cumberland Iron Works
Ironworks, near Dover, Tennessee.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- near Dover, Tennessee
- Years
- 1861-1862
CUMBERLAND IRON WORKS
Woods, Lewis and Company's works in Stewart County, one of the largest in Tennessee's Western Iron District, the largest iron producer in the Confederacy in 1861. Its rolling mill dated from 1829. The War Department failed to protect the works when Forts Henry and Donelson fell in February 1862.
Then
Woods, Lewis and Company's Cumberland Iron Works in Stewart County was one of the largest operations in Tennessee's Western Iron District, the largest iron producer in the Confederacy in 1861. Its rolling mill, built in 1829, stood on the left bank of the Cumberland ten miles southeast of the Dover courthouse.
The Confederate War Department tried and failed to protect the works when Forts Henry and Donelson fell in February 1862. Forrest's cavalry escaped Fort Donelson on February 16 along the Cumberland Iron Works road.
Now
The 1859 guide places the rolling mill on the Cumberland in Stewart County, thirty miles by river below Clarksville.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 13 miles from the center of near Dover.
Nearby
- 1 miFort Donelson surrenders, opening the Cumberland RiverFebruary 16, 1862, Fort Donelson, Dover, Tennessee
- 11 miFort Henry falls, opening the Tennessee RiverFebruary 6, 1862, Fort Henry, Tennessee
- 29 miForrest destroys the Johnsonville supply baseNovember 4, 1864, Johnsonville, Tennessee
- 30 miJohnsonville supply baseUnion · Supply base, Johnsonville, Tennessee
- 45 miSycamore Powder MillConfederate · Powder works, near Ashland City, Tennessee
- 60 miPaducah supply depotUnion · Supply base, Paducah, Kentucky