Union Iron Works (Eads yard)
Naval works, Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Naval works
- Where
- Carondelet, St. Louis, Missouri
- Years
- 1861-1864
UNION IRON WORKS
James Eads leased the marine railway yard at Carondelet in 1861 and built ironclads there for the Union. It produced 32 ironclad gunboats, including the City-class St. Louis, Carondelet, Pittsburgh and Louisville. The yard later fabricated the caissons for the Eads Bridge.
Then
James Eads leased the marine railway yard, where Marceau Street met the Mississippi, in 1861 and built ironclads there for the Union. It produced 32 ironclad gunboats, including the City-class St. Louis, Carondelet, Pittsburgh and Louisville, and Eads subcontracted three more City-class boats to Mound City, Illinois.
The yard fabricated the caissons for the Eads Bridge in 1869 and 1870.
Now
Lines owned by Union Pacific run through Carondelet, St. Louis today.
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