Continental Iron Works
Naval works, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Naval works
- Where
- Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
- Years
- 1861-1865
CONTINENTAL IRON WORKS
Thomas F. Rowland's yard launched USS Monitor in 101 days and built eight warships for the Navy in the war, seven monitors and a gunboat, with turrets for three other monitors. Its wartime workforce reached about 1,000. Shipbuilding slumped after 1865.
Then
Thomas F. Rowland's yard launched USS Monitor in 101 days and built eight warships for the Navy in the war, seven monitors and a gunboat, along with turrets for three other monitors. It also made gun carriages and the mortar beds for Porter's mortar schooners, and its wartime workforce reached about 1,000 on eight acres.
Shipbuilding slumped after 1865 and the firm turned to gas works equipment. It was liquidated in 1928.
Now
The site was idle as of 2020.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 1.0 miles away.
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