Merrick & Sons, Southwark Iron Foundry
Ironworks, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Years
- 1861-1862
SOUTHWARK IRON FOUNDRY
Merrick & Sons, operator of the Southwark Iron Foundry, won a $780,000 contract on October 15, 1861 for the broadside ironclad New Ironsides. She was launched on May 10, 1862 and commissioned on August 21.
Then
Merrick & Sons, operator of the Southwark Iron Foundry, won a $780,000 contract on October 15, 1861 for the broadside ironclad New Ironsides. She was launched on May 10, 1862 and commissioned on August 21, and the Navy paid $34,322.06 more for extras.
Now
Lines owned by smaller railroads and CSX run through Philadelphia today.
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