Factories

Industrial Wheeling

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[#x-Industrial Wheeling Industrial Wheeling]

[#x-Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company]

[#x-Hazel Atlas Glass Company Hazel Atlas Glass Company]

[#x-Reymann Brewery Reymann Brewery]

[#x-Schmulbach Brewery Schmulbach Brewery]

[#x-Sterling Drug Building Sterling Drug Building]

[#x-Red Factory Red Factory]

[#x-Warwick China Co. Warwick China Co.]

[#x-Iron & Steel Iron & Steel]

[#x-Oil, Gas & Coal Oil, Gas & Coal]

Wheeling's past prominence was based on a confluence of transportation routes to the West. The Ohio River, the National Road, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the Suspension Bridge all brought many people to and through Wheeling.

What made manufactoring successful here - was it transportation that made it easy for raw materials to come in and finished products to go out? The abundance of coal as a cheap energy to run factories? Or maybe an entrepreneurial spirit that anything was possible? The transportation advantage is still here but the coal and the can-do attitude are mostly gone. In any case, Wheeling became a major manufacturing center in the second half of the 19th century and many fascinating industrial buildings remain to mark that heritage. Here are some images from a 1936 Wheeling Chamber of Commerce brochure promoting Wheeling as the Workshop of the Central West. Following that is a growing list, first of names of factories, and then photos and text to document them.

I would be happy to learn the identification of any of these factories (and their locations). The map indicates how central Wheeling was felt to be in 1936.

[/Bloch%20Brothers%20Tobacco%20Company Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company]

[/Central%20Glass%20Company Central Glass Company]

[/15th%20Street Hazel Atlas Glass Company]

[/Reymann%20Brewery Reymann Brewery]

[/Schmulbach%20Brewery Schmulbach Brewery]

[/19th%20Street Sterling Drug Building]

[/19th%20Street Red Factory]

[/Warwick%20China%20Co. Warwick China Co.]

- 22nd & Water St

[/Iron%20%26%20Steel Iron & Steel]

[/Oil%2C%20Gas%20%26%20Coal Oil, Gas & Coal]

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