Fort Pitt Foundry (Knap, Rudd & Co.)
Foundry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Foundry
- Where
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Built over
FORT PITT FOUNDRY
Strip District foundry that accounted for 60 percent of Union cannon production, including most of the guns arming monitors. It cast 8-inch Rodman guns in 1861 and in 1864 a 20-inch Army Rodman weighing nearly 117,000 pounds. A rival bought it in 1878.
Then
The Strip District foundry accounted for 60 percent of Union cannon production, including most of the guns arming monitors and millions of pounds of shells, with nearly 300 men and eight melting furnaces at its peak. It cast 8-inch Rodman guns in 1861, and in 1864 a 20-inch Army Rodman 20 feet long and weighing nearly 117,000 pounds.
It cast more giant guns for the Navy and Army from 1866 to 1869. A rival bought the foundry in 1878.
Now
Built over
The works stood near today's Heinz History Center in the Strip District. Nothing of it remains.
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern, CSX and smaller railroads run through Pittsburgh today.
Nearby
- 2 miAllegheny ArsenalUnion · Arsenal, Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville), Pennsylvania
- 67 miMcClellan sends troops to guard the B&O after bridges burnMay 26, 1861, Fairmont, West Virginia
- 76 miGrafton junctionUnion · Rail junction, Grafton, West Virginia
- 77 miDefenders save the B&O Cheat River bridge at RowlesburgApril 26, 1863, Rowlesburg, West Virginia
- 77 miJones-Imboden raiders burn the B&O bridge at OaklandApril 26, 1863, Oakland, Maryland
- 82 miMcNeill's Rangers burn the B&O machine shops at PiedmontMay 5, 1864, Piedmont, West Virginia