Winter Foundry, Montgomery (1847-1856). Begun as the Montgomery Manufacturing Company in a partnership which included former Mayor John Gindrant, this foundry was a major producer of steam engines, sugar mills and machines for textile factories. By 1852, the company's advertising claimed to be the largest foundry south of Philadelphia.
Janney Foundry, Montgomery (1844-1928), owned by industrialist A. A. Janney, produced ordnance for the Confederacy along with various castings, sheet metal and ornamental ironwork. This foundry was burnt by Union troops invading Montgomery on April 12,1865.Janney also built the Janney Furnace in Calhoun County in 1863.
Mobile was the site of several war-time foundries and fabricating companies including the
Park & Lyons Machine Shop where the CSS Hunley was built in 1863. The building still stands
on the corners of Water and State Streets. The submarine became the first submersible to sink a war ship during battle off Charleston Harbor.
The Leach & Avery Foundry opened shop in Tuscaloosa in the 1840s. It was buying coke from the Goold Mine in Shelby County in1854 for $8 a ton for use in the manufacture of plows and other agricultural implements. During the Civil War this foundry began turning out war materials including cannons. The plant was torched during Croxton's Raid on Tuscaloosa April 5, 1865.
The Thomas, Jones & Company Foundry along Six Mile Creek in Bibb County operated from about1868 to 1886. It bought pig iron from both the rebuilt Shelby and Brierfield Iron Works for use in making hollow-ware, cast iron items, pots and skillets selling for 7 cents a pound. The plant was destroyed by a flood in 1886.
The C. B.Churchill & Company Foundry re-located in Columbiana in Shelby County after the fall of Corinth, Mississippi in 1862. The new foundry was built under the supervision of George Peacock who, while in Mississippi, had invented an improved method for making shot and shell. At Columbiana, the works made eight and ten pound shells, possibly some 32 pound shells and Parrott shells for Blakeley guns up to 180 pounds. The Churchill Foundry also made steam engine parts, iron fencing and chilled rolls.
The Confederate Carbine Works at the Tallassee Armory, Elmore County, was the maker of the famed Tallassee carbine; facility moved from Richmond, July of 1863. This foundry and surrounding factory buildings, powered by the Tallapoosa River, was the only Confederate Armory not destroyed during the Civil War. The rifle factory still stands as a national historic site.
The Thorp & Hollingsworth Foundry was located along the banks of Shoal Creek in downtown
Montevallo in 1863 to manufacture horse shoes and camp equipment for Confederate soldiers. The company used pig iron from the Shelby Iron Works.
An earlier works was also located in Montevallo in the late 1840s, the
McGeigh Foundry, which was supplied with iron from the Cane Creek Furnace near Anniston.
There were various other Confederate manufacturers in Alabama during the Civil War including the
James Conning Co. in Mobile which produced edged weapons and
Davis & Bowman in central Alabama which made rifles and carbines.
Marker at North Court Street between Randolph and Pollard
Streets, Montgomery (Bennett).
Park & Lyons Machine Shop, corner of Water and State Streets, Mobile (State Docks).
of Tallassee Armory site marker and building,
(City of Tallassee).