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Size | 2 items |
Abstract | Louisa Furnace was an ironworks, probably in Montgomery County, Tenn., possibly operated in the 1850s by Gilbert Taylor Abernathy (1820-1888) of Pulaski, Tenn. Abernathy was an army officer, school teacher, civil engineer, iron furnance operator, and large land-owner, most of whose land was sold for taxes after the Civil War. Two volumes relating to the operation of the Louisa Furnace. One volume, 132 pp., contains daybook entries for Louisa Furance, 1853-1855, and records of accounts, 1831-1832 and 1848, that may not be related to furnace operations. The other volume, 192 double pages, is a ledger of accounts, 1854-1860, with African-American laborers at Louisa Furnace, with records of shoes, suits, blankets, cloth, flour, tobacco, and other supplies issued to the workers recorded on the left-hand page and records of amounts due employees for extra and Sunday work on the right-hand page. These amounts are labeled "extra iron," "cutting wood," and extra loads of coal. |
Creator | Louisa Furnace (Montgomery County, Tenn.) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Rebecca Hollingsworth, February 1993
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2010
This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.
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Two volumes relating to the operation of the Louisa Furnace. One volume, 132 pp., contains daybook entries for Louisa Furance, 1853-1855, and records of accounts, 1831-1832 and 1848, that may not be related to furnace operations. The other volume, 192 double pages, is a ledger of accounts, 1854-1860, with African-American laborers at Louisa Furnace, with records of shoes, suits, blankets, cloth, flour, tobacco, and other supplies issued to the workers recorded on the left-hand page and records of amounts due employees for extra and Sunday work on the right-hand page. These amounts are labeled "extra iron," "cutting wood," and extra loads of coal.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Volume 1: 1831-1855 |
Folder 2 |
Enclosure from Volume 1 |
Oversize Volume SV-3560/2 |
Volume 2: 1854-1860Ledger of accounts with African American laborers at the ironworks from 1854 to 1860. |