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Appomattox Iron Works

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Federal

VLR #
  
123-0087

Built
  
c. 1815 (1815)

NRHP Reference #
  
76002226

Added to NRHP
  
11 August 1976

Appomattox Iron Works

Location
  
20-28 Old St., Petersburg, Virginia

Appomattox Iron Works is a historic iron foundry complex located at Petersburg, Virginia. The complex consists of nine buildings: the machine shop, the mill store, the supply room, the pipe shop, the carpenter's shop and pattern shop, the core room, the foundry building, the blacksmith's shop, and the ruins of a stable. The machine shop at 28 Old St. is the oldest structure in the complex. It was built between 1810 and 1825, and is a three-story, four bay, Federal style brick building. The Appomattox Iron Works operated at this location from 1899 until 1972.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is located in the Petersburg Old Town Historic District.

References

Appomattox Iron Works Wikipedia