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Housing a Foundry Community with a "Liberal and Philanthropic Spirit" (2009)

Elizabeth N. Hartnell (Author)

IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
Volume: 35
Issue: 1/2
Pages: 91-104

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41550367

Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: THEME ISSUE: WEST POINT FOUNDRY
Language: English

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Housing Industrial archaeology Company towns Census tabulation Paternalism 19th century Cold Spring, NY United States West Point Foundry

Throughout the nineteenth century, American industries established themselves close to natural resources (such as streams for water power) in areas that were sparsely settled. In addition to building the factory, industrial companies also built housing for their workforce. The West Point Foundry and the adjacent Village of Cold Spring were no exception to the trend. Only fifty miles from Manhattan, Cold Spring's access to markets via the Hudson River meant it was not as isolated as many similar communities away from the coast. This location, coupled with the fact that the West Point Foundry owned only half of what would become the village, meant that the foundry itself did not really have to construct company houses. Yet the owners' decisions to do so helped to reinforce a paternalistic relationship with their workers, in which owners dictated house size and lot, rent price, date of sale, number of families, location, and the names of landscape features such as roads and neighborhoods. The following is a discussion of the origins of this company town, its expansion during the height of its production, and the late nineteenth-century decline highlighting both the typical and unique qualities of this American industnal community. The West Point Foundry and Village of Cold Spring provide a case study of paternalistic, industrial owners providing company housing to a primarily skilled, male workforce.

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Article Patrick E. Martin (2009) Industrial Archaeology at the West Point Foundry. IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology (pp. 5-8). unapi

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