The Yorkville Enquirer reported on March 28, 1872 – “A steam engine boiler at the Ironworks of John F. Taylor and Co., in Charleston exploded recently. Frederick Barton was killed and a number of employees were injured. A portion of the boiler was thrown into the carpenter’s shop of Sawyer and Ferguson on Hassell Street.”
City Directories and History: The company created significant number of machine parts and equipment in Charleston. Associated with the company in the post Civil War boom were: J.F. Taylor, E.M. Troth and Wm. H. Prioleau.
The receipt shown below, listed the following officers and directors: G. W. Williams, R. Brotherhood, A. G. Rose, W. E. Breese at #1 Broad Street. Directors were: G.W. Williams, J. F. Taylor, F. J. Pelzer, C. A. Chisolm, J. C. Mallonee, D. C. Ebaugh, and D. H. Harvey.
The Yorkville Enquirer reported on April 13, 1892 – “A commission for a charter has been issued to the Blacksburg Phosphate Guano Co., with a capital stock of $100,000. The company will mine and manufacture phosphates and pyrites. The corporators are: John F. Jones, D.C. Ebaugh of Charleston, T.B. Gautieu of Morristown, N.J., G.W. Ebaugh of Spartanburg and Dr. John G. Black of Blacksburg.”
Illustration of this address – Guide to Charleston, S.C. by A. Mazyck, (1875)
Other sources of interest: Charleston Tax Payers of Charleston, SC in 1860-61 and the Dwelling Houses of Charleston by Alice R.H. Smith – 1917
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The Charleston Ironworks complex shows on this excerpt from Sanborn map 0f 1888. The ironworks was one of many throughout the city, in the late 19th century, and would have played an important role in the structural refitting of shofits, mouldings, and iron rods being used to stabilize the region following the Charleston Earthquake.
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