Noble Brothers Foundry
Foundry, Rome, Georgia.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Foundry
- Where
- Rome, Georgia
- Years
- 1861-1864
- Today
- Marker only
NOBLE BROTHERS FOUNDRY
The foundry on the Etowah River made about seventy guns under Confederate contracts, including 3-inch rifled cannon, 6-pounder smoothbores and 12-pounder howitzers. Union troops entered Rome on May 18, 1864, ending production, and later burned the foundry and the railroad depots.
Then
The foundry on the Etowah River made 3-inch rifled cannon, 6-pounder smoothbores and 12-pounder howitzers under Confederate contracts, about seventy guns in all. Rome's iron works were a main reason the city was fortified in 1863.
Union troops entered Rome on May 18, 1864, ending production. Under Sherman's order of November 10, 1864, troops burned the foundry and the railroad depots.
Now
Marker only
A Georgia Civil War Heritage Trails marker stands at Broad Street and East First Avenue.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Norfolk Southern, about 0.7 miles away.
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