Georgia's First Iron Foundry (Samuel Griswold, Owner) (Gray, Georgia)

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This was the location of the first iron foundry in GA which was later moved to the railroad where Samuel Griswold founded Griswoldville.


The only remaining evidence of the foundry is this Historic Marker that was placed in 1954 that reads:
The first iron foundry in Georgia was established here by Samuel Griswold who came from Connecticut, settling in Clinton in 1820. He also manufactured about 1,000 cotton gins a year and ran a steam sawmill and grist mill. Moving to Griswoldville in 1849 to be on the railroad his mansion and factories were burned by Sherman in 1864 when he was making pistols and ammunition for the Confederacy. He died in 1867. Daniel Pratt of Temple, N. H., later designer of the Alabama capitol, was at one time Griswold´s partner.

GHM 084-3 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1954

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More information concerning Samuel Griswold and his industrial endeavors in Clinton & Griswoldville can be found at the following links:
www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/taylor/jones/military/gr...

www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3017