Neabsco Iron Works

The Neabsco Iron Works (alternates: Neabsco Company; Neabsco Iron Foundry ) were located in Woodbridge, Virginia, USA. After abandoning the Bristol Iron Works,^[1] John Tayloe I established the Neabsco Iron Foundry around 1737. The business became a multifaceted antebellum industrial plantation. Its activities included as farming, leatherworking, milling, shipbuilding, shoemaking, and smithing, as well as supplying raw materials used as weaponry during the American Revolution.^[2] The business grew and expanded with his son, John Tayloe II when, In 1756, he bought the Occoquan Ironworks company, eventually running it as one business with the Neabsco.^[3] It was situation on 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) by the Neabsco Creek.^[4]

References

1. ^ Virginia Writers' Project (1 January 1972). Virginia: a guide to the Old Dominion. North American Book Dist LLC. pp. 345–. ISBN 978-0-403-02195-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=PBBAaN0aDicC&pg=PA345. Retrieved 16 October 2011. 
2. ^ "Neabsco Iron Works". Historical Marker Database. http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=2154. Retrieved 17 October 2011. 
3. ^ Vaver, Anthony (30 June 2011). Bound with an Iron Chain: The Untold Story of How the British Transported 50,000 Convicts to Colonial America. Pickpocket Publishing. pp. 185–. GGKEY:CLAJ3TFBGPJ. http://books.google.com/books?id=XB5EdIEOKesC&pg=PA185. Retrieved 16 October 2011. 
4. ^ Kamoie, Laura Croghan (2007). Irons in the fire: the business history of the Tayloe family and Virginia's gentry, 1700-1860. University of Virginia Press. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-0-8139-2637-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=pofTCQGIRa0C&pg=PA62. Retrieved 16 October 2011.