Chattanooga, TN: US Pipe and Foundry Co.

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Tyler Spangler posted seven photos with the comment: "U.S pipe . Chattanooga TN."

Tyler Spangler: The company’s owners, David Giles and Caleb B. Isbester, were Pennsylvania iron men who had manufactured pipe in Nashville since 1867. Together they established the Chattanooga Pipe and Foundry Works in 1877, building a modern and efficient plant along Whiteside Street adjacent to the city’s growing rail yard.

Chattanooga Pipe and Foundry became one of the city’s leading manufacturers and was recognized as one of the nation’s finest iron fabricators. The company was also one of the city’s top employers and engaged over 150 workers, two-thirds of whom were black. Innovators from the outset, Giles and Isbester experimented with a number of revolutionary manufacturing techniques and even attempted to find new uses for industrial wastes–using spent tans for fuel and converting furnace ashes to fertilizer.

In 1899, following a protracted local depression, Chattanooga Pipe and Foundry consolidated with other regional fabricators to form the United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company. Later, in 1936, the company closed the old Whiteside Street plant and moved its operations to the current facility on Chestnut Street near Moccasin Bend. In 1969 the firm, now known as U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company, was purchased by the Jim Walter Corporation, a leading producer of building materials and prefab houses.

Trevor Shellhammer: Did they operate a cupola? And did they spin cast pipe, or make sand castings, or both? Aaaand, gray or ductile iron, or both? Chattanooga is nice, shame for this. US Pipe has shut down other plants, (NJ, AL), and bought othere (Griffin in VA). Infrastructure $$$ will help, hopefully.

Tyler Spangler: Trevor Shellhammer I think they did all of the above . I know a few guys that used to work there they talked about the processes of making the pipe . I always though that type of work sounded interesting . It’s a shame they let it get to what it is . They’re taking of building a new baseball stadium there even though we have the lookouts stadium 2 miles down the road

There are several industrial buildings down by "Moccasin Bend." This is the photo that allowed me to identify the location of these buildings on the satellite map.

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I doubt this is in this plant, but I needed somewhere to note this. I think this is spin casting the pipe.

0:18 video @ 0:05, cropped