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The Galion Iron Works Company of Galion, Ohio, was founded by David Charles Boyd and his three brothers in 1907.In its early years, the Galion produced a wide range of road-building and other construction equipment, such as drag scrapers, plows, wagons, stone unloaders, rock crushers, and a variety of other "experimental machines".
The company was an early adopter of electric motors, and one of the first American manufacturers to build a mining locomotive powered from an overhead wire, in 1888. [7] This was followed by a line of electrically-driven coal mining machines. [8] By 1911, the company's plant in Columbus occupied more than 30 acres.
Kilbourne and Jacobs Manufacturing Company was founded in 1881 by James Kilbourne and HL Jacobs in Columbus, Ohio with an initial investment of $100,000. [1] Built in close proximity to Union Station , [ 2 ] the company produced wheelbarrows, horse-drawn railroad scrapers and other earth-moving equipment during the turn of the century. [ 3 ]
Buckeye, named for the Ohio Buckeye tree, was founded in Columbus as the Murray-Hayden Foundry, which made iron farm implements. Finding success in manufacturing iron railroad car couplers , the name changed to the Buckeye Automatic Car Coupler Company in 1891 and Buckeye Malleable Iron and Coupler Company in 1894.
It reached an $80 million settlement in 1975 (equivalent to $452,987,013 in 2023), used to demolish Union Station, build Battelle Hall at the Columbus Convention Center, refurbish the Ohio Theatre and create Battelle-Darby Creek Metro Park. The institute lost its nonprofit status in the 1990s, though regained it by 2001.
Worthington Enterprises, Inc. is a global diversified metals manufacturing company based in Columbus, Ohio.It is a steel processor and manufacturer of pressure vessels, such as propane, oxygen and helium tanks, hand torches, refrigerant and industrial cylinders, camping cylinders, exploration, recovery and production products for global energy markets; water system tanks for storage, treatment ...
The Columbus Buggy Company was an early buggy and automotive manufacturer based in Columbus, Ohio, United States, from 1875 to 1913. Begun by three business partners, the company set up its manufacturing facilities in what is today the Arena District producing inexpensive buggies and dashboards , and quickly saw success.
The Jaeger Machine Company Office Building is a historic building in the Arena District neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1] [2] The two-story concrete building was constructed in 1936. It was designed simply and affordably, but with Art Deco features for a modern design.