Scott Foundry
Foundry, Reading, Pennsylvania.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Foundry
- Where
- Reading, Pennsylvania
- Years
- 1861-1865
SCOTT FOUNDRY
Foundry at Reading, 1861-1865, one of the four that cast Rodman guns. The guns were hollow-cast seacoast columbiads designed by Thomas Jackson Rodman, in 8-, 10-, 13-, 15- and 20-inch bores.
Then
One of the four foundries that cast Rodman guns, the hollow-cast seacoast columbiads designed by Thomas Jackson Rodman in 8-, 10-, 13-, 15- and 20-inch bores.
Now
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern run through Reading today.
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