RE: Names of Steel Mills Anniston and Calhoun County, Alabama Issued Through Publicity Committee Anniston Chamber of Commerce Compiled 1920 The Iron And Steel Industry In Anniston (per 1920): Woodstock Operating Corporation / Woodstock Furnace Anniston Steel Company Kilby Car & Foundry Company / Kilby Car and Locomotive Works National Forgings Company Ajax Foundry Company Southern Manganese Corporation Bosworth-Ard Foundry and Machine Shops Lee Brothers Brass Foundry (at one time the largest in the world!) Statom Boiler Works Ornamental Foundry Company Calhoun Foundry Company Anniston Soil Pipe Company Anniston Foundry Company Emory Foundry Company Interstate Foundry Company U. S. Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Company Central Foundry Company Union Foundry Company Standard Foundry Company Alabama Pipe & Foundry Company Anniston Truck & Body Company Lynchburg Foundry Company Eastham Soil Pipe & Foundry Company The Chamber of Commerce booklet also lists (per 1920) names of textile mills, banks, civic organizations, hospitals, shipping facilities, churches, manufacturing companies, newspapers, physicians, drug stores, furniture companies, photographers, department stores, garages, hardware stores, real estate companies, insurance companies, wholesale houses, lumber mills, attorneys, etc. Also includes photos of these businesses/structures, plus homes, waterways, street scene, night life, brick roads, historical markers, etc. Erna In a message dated 04/09/2000 JANICE writes: > Looking over some old family notes, I found a reference to my > great-grandfather being a supervisor in a stell mill in Anniston in the > early 1900's. Does anyone know if there was a steel mill in Anniston around > that time and what the name may have been. > > Janice >