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Samuel Griswold Iron-Master State Historical Marker
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Photo: David Seibert
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Samuel Griswold Iron-Master State Historical Marker
- Located in small park on Pulaski St. 2/10 mile east
of intersection of US 129 and Green Settlement Rd, 2 miles west
of Gray City Hall
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32.99699321, -83.5585374
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- SAMUEL GRISWOLD
IRON-MASTER
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- The first iron foundry in Georgia was
established here by Samuel Griswold who came from Connecticut,
settling in Clinton in 1820. He also manufactured about 1,000
cotton ghins a year and ran a steam sawmill and grist mill. Moving
to Griswoldville in 1849 to be on the railroad his mansion and
factories were burned by Sherman in 1864 when he was making pistols
and ammunition for the Confederacy. He died in 1867. Daniel Pratt
of Temple, N. H., later designer of the Alabama capitol, was
at one time Griswold's partner.
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- 084-3 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1954
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