. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . Harrisburg Foundry and Machine-Works owesits existence to Mr. Hildrups mechanical attainmentsand executive ability. This gentleman, who has beenthe general superintendent and business manager ofthe car-works industry since its foundation, in orderto keep their vast number of men employed duringa season of depression in the car-building businesswhich occurred about 1865, began the manufactureof agricultural implements and machinists industry was carried on fo
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . Harrisburg Foundry and Machine-Works owesits existence to Mr. Hildrups mechanical attainmentsand executive ability. This gentleman, who has beenthe general superintendent and business manager ofthe car-works industry since its foundation, in orderto keep their vast number of men employed duringa season of depression in the car-building businesswhich occurred about 1865, began the manufactureof agricultural implements and machinists industry was carried on for a few years in thecar-works plant, but it was not long until a boomin the car-building business required all the space inthe works for that purpose. Consequently the com-pany were obliged to either give up the manufactureof the articles mentioned above or erect suitablebuildings to carry on the industry. They decided tocontinue the industry, and about 1867 erected thelarge works now in operation on Allisons Hill. Thebuildings comprising this plant were used for car- ^ &\ X- v, \- X V IN \N- N^ N v. X- 1 V •. CITY OP HARRISBURG. 357 building during the time required to build the car-works destroyed by fire. In place of the originaltwo and a half acres of ground, the company nowown fifty-eight acres of valuable city land, locatedas follows: Thirty-three acres north of the Pennsyl-vania Railroad, from Broad to State Streets, uponwhich the car-works are erected; twenty-two acreson Allisons Hill, where the foundry and machine-works are located ; and three acres opposite the Wis-ter Furnace, where the companys large saw-mill islocated. The principal buildings comprising the car-works plant are imposing in their dimensions andarchitectural appearance, consisting of three con-struction-shops,—one sixty by two hundred andeighty-two feet, one sixty by two hundred feet, andone forty by two hundred and eleven feet in dimen-sions ; foundry, sixty-two by two hundred and twentyfeet; mac
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