Woodward Iron Company

  Product Details CompanyWoodward Iron CompanyCertificate TypeCommon StockDate IssuedFebruary 13, 1959CanceledYesPrinterE. A. Wright Bank Note CompanySignaturesMachine printedApproximate Size12 1/4" (w) by 8 1/4" (h)ImagesShow the exact certificate you will receiveGuaranteed AuthenticYesAdditional DetailsNA Historical Context The Woodward Iron Company was founded by Stimpson Harvey Woodward, an ironmaker from Massachusetts, and its dynasty was born in 1882 when the first mine was opened on Birmingham's Red Mountain (Alabama). A virtual boomtown followed: miles of railroad track, four locomotives, fifty railroad cars, sixty-three single coke ovens, eighty double coke ovens, and housing for over a thousand employees, all of which later became the town of Woodward.Michael Fazio describes the rise of the Woodward Iron Company throughout the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth, a rise that contributed to a national iron industry that overtook England as the world's leading produc