Description: This photograph shows what appears to be a water reservoir in foreground with smokestacks and several buildings including a factory or mill-type structure against a backdrop of river and mountains.
Historical Note: The Roane Iron Company, later headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was co-founded after the Civil War by John Wilder, a Union officer, who, according to the history of Roane County, Tennessee, discovered an abundance of iron on Walden Ridge and later returned to Rockwood to form the Roane Iron Company.
Institution: Chattanooga History Center
Publisher: Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
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