The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852Casseday, Ben
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The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852
Casseday, Ben
Louisville (Ky.) -- Description and travel; Louisville (Ky.) -- History
The following table of manufactures in Louisville is chiefly taken from
the census report of 1850. Additions have been made to the more important
branches of manufacture as far as reliable data could be obtained, so as
to enable the reader to have a comprehensive view of the subject up to the
present time. It is believed that the figures in this table are under the
actual amounts; it is certain, at any rate, that they do not in any
instance exceed the truth. A more extended and special notice of the
principal manufacturing establishments of the city will be given in an
appendix to this volume, to which all who feel an interest in the state of
manufactures here are especially referred.
TABLE OF MANUFACTURES.
Kind of Manufacture. No. of No. of Annual
Factories. hands. product.
Animal Charcoal 2 12 $15,000
Awnings and Tents 2 12 7,500
Artificial Flowers 1 3 6,000
Bagging Factories 3 120 184,000
Bakers 96 332 469,200
Bandboxes 3 9 3,800
Baskets 3 7 5,400
Bellows 2 7 15,000
Blacking 3 12 7,500
Blacksmiths 49 254 163,400
Blinds, Venitian 3 12 14,200
Blocks and Spars 2 12 7,500
Bootmakers 63 302 375,100
Brewers 6 30 108,600
Brushes 2 9 5,813
Bricks 36 339 224 000
Bristle Dressers 1 3 2,500
Burr Stones 1 8 12,000
Boiler Makers 4 30 64,200
Candy 9 56 184,800
Camphine, &c. 1 3 31,500
Carpenters 144 916 1,027,600
Cars, &c. 1 100
Carpet Weavers 2 14 6,000
Coach Makers 9 98 123.300
Cotton and Wool 3 135 173,500
Clothing 45 1,157 941,500
Composition Roofing 1
Combs 6 18 9,800
Coopers 20 60 56,800
Cement 1 4 10,000
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