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Bath Iron Works. Bath Iron Works (BIW) is a major United States shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, founded in 1884 as Bath Iron Works, Limited. Since 1995, Bath Iron Works has been a subsidiary of General Dynamics, one of the world's largest defense companies. BIW has built private, commercial, and military vessels, most of ...
Architectural style. Late Victorian, Federal. NRHP reference No. 71000687 [1] Added to NRHP. March 11, 1971. Curtin Village, also known as Eagle Ironworks, is a national historic district located in Boggs Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The district includes eighteen contributing buildings and three contributing structures in Curtin.
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Berks County, near Elverson, Pennsylvania, is an example of an American 19th century rural iron plantation, whose operations were based around a charcoal-fired cold-blast iron blast furnace. The significant restored structures include the furnace group (blast furnace, water wheel, blast ...
91001132 [1] Added to NRHP. September 6, 1991. Codorus Forge and Furnace Historic District, also known as Hellem (Hellam) Forge, is a historic iron forge and national historic district located at Hellam Township in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure.
Drexel, Gottlieb. Architect. Okie, Richardson Brognard. NRHP reference No. 87000797 [1] Added to NRHP. July 30, 1987. The Reading Furnace Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Warwick Township and East Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
November 21, 1978. The Hyde Mansion, originally known as Elmhurst, is a historic house at 616 High Street in Bath, Maine, United States. Now the main building on the Bath campus of The Hyde Schools, it was built in 1913 for John Sedgewick Hyde, the son of Bath Iron Works (BIW) founder Thomas W. Hyde. It was designed by John Calvin Stevens, and ...
Katahdin is a bluff-bowed steamer, 102 feet (31 m) long, with a beam of 28 feet (8.5 m) and a hull depth of 9 feet (2.7 m). Its hull is steel, with two wooden decks. Its typical draft is 3 feet 9 inches (1.14 m). The original configuration included enclosed passenger spaces on two decks, with an open area at the stern on the lower deck, and ...
The Bourbon Iron Works, near Owingsville in Bath County, Kentucky, date from 1791. The works was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] It was the first of six blast furnaces built in this area for the smelting of iron ore. Only the blast furnace stack survives.