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Title
Interlake
Iron
and
Toledo
Shipbuilding
Subject
Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Federal Writers' Project--Works Progress Administration in Ohio--Industry--wartime--Coast Guard--
Time Period
1930s
Place
Toledo (Ohio)
Lucas County (Ohio)
Description
Back
reads
:
Interlake
Iron
Corp
at
left
.
-Toledo
Shipbuilding
Co
. at
right
. The
Interlake
Iron
Corporation
Plant
, on
Front
Street
in
Toledo
,
Ohio
was
built
in
1902
by
Pickands
Mather
of the
Toledo
Furnace
Company
and was
designed
to be the
most
modern
pig
iron
plant
in the
world
. This
plant
was
purchased
from
Toledo
Furnace
Company
in
1929
by the By
Products
Corporation
, and, the
company
having
acquired
several
other
properties
as
well
,
decide
to
rename
itself
Interlake
Iron
Corporation
.
Though
successful
for
quite
awhile
, by
1978
Interlake
decided
to
take
a
write-off
for
closing
the
plant
in
Toledo
, as
it
had
exhausted
its
useful
life
. By
1986
,
most
of the
plant
had been
dismantled
or
demolished
.
Located
at
2245
Front
Street
, the
Craig
Shipbuilding
Co
.
built
nearly
100
vessels
between
1889
and
1906
when
it
was
bought
by the
American
Shipbuilding
Company
. In
1918
Toledo's
shipyard
contracted
the
manufacture
of
26
vessels
for
WWI
.
WWII
brought
the
construction
of
two
more
Coast
Guard
lake
vessels
(1944)
.
Having
a
large
population
of
female
laborers
, the
quintessential
Rosie
the
Riveter
spirit
was
based
on
projects
like
these.
Creator
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Collection
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
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Date created
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Date modified
2011-06-02
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