AKA Denmead's Iron Works; Monument Iron Foundry.
A. & W. Denmead & Sons was a partnership of first cousins Adam Denmead (1804-1864) and William Denmead (1810-1876). They were from a family of carpenters and woodworkers, who in the later generations went into metal-working, becoming master machinists and what equates to mechanical engineers.
The business began in the late 1830s or early 1840s, and grew to include a large foundry with a water privilege on the Jones Falls and a shipyard on the Baltimore waterfront. Their wide-ranging output included stationary steam engines, boilers, steam locomotives, sawmills, slide and chuck lathes, sugar cane Mills, cast iron building fronts, iron bridges, ships, and the light-draft monitor
Waxsaw. One of their U.S. Navy ships, the side wheel gunboat
Monocacy, served in the Orient until 1903.
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