Neabsco Iron Works

Neabsco Iron Works marker, located near the Neabsco Iron Works on Route 1, AKA Jefferson Davis Hwy, AKA The Kings Highway, AKA The Potomac Path

The Neabsco Iron Works (alternates: Neabsco Company; Neabsco Iron Foundry) was located in Woodbridge, Virginia, US. It was situated on 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) by the Neabsco Creek.[1]

After abandoning the Bristol Iron Works,[2] John Tayloe I established the Neabsco Iron Foundry around 1737. The business became a multifaceted antebellum industrial plantation. Its activities included farming, leatherworking, milling, shipbuilding, shoemaking, and smithing, as well as supplying raw materials used as weaponry during the American Revolution.[3] 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.[4]

  1. ^ 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. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  2. ^ 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. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Neabsco Iron Works". Historical Marker Database. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  4. ^ 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. Retrieved 16 October 2011.