W. A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop National Historic Landmark Nomination
Kuncio GM. 2016. W. A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop National Historic Landmark Nomination. National Historic Landmark Nominations. 100000839_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is a National Historic Landmark nomination for the W. A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop in Rices Landing, Greene County, Pennsylvania. The National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination for the the W. A. Young & Sons Foundry and Machine Shop documents its national significance under NHL Criteria 1 and 4. Under Criterion 1, the property is nationally significant as an outstanding example of the type of small, family-owned, twentieth-century foundry and machine shop that was an important component of the American industrial economy. W. A. Young & Sons is nationally significant under NHL Criterion 4 in engineering for its collection of buildings, machine tools, and foundry equipment associated with a twentieth-century small foundry and machine shop. The period of national significance is 1900-1965.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Kuncio, Gerald
- Date of Issue
- 2016-12-23
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- engineering, industrial history, labor, National Historic Landmark, Pennsylvania, Rices Landing