Iron companies in the late 1800s began melting down scrap metal from old machines and parts to make new products, just as we recycle materials like aluminum cans today. The “car wheel crusher” that stood here broke up old railroad car wheels so that the pieces could be melted and reshaped. A large weight was dropped on the wheels to break them.

Marker can be reached from Tredegar Street 0.1 miles west of South 5th Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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