Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

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Stockham Pipe & Fittings Company, 4000 Tenth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL

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Significance: Stockham Valves and Fittings grew from a modest early twentieth century company to become one of the world's largest producers of valves and fittings. Beginning in the mid-1920s, the firm utilized a unique mixture of state-of-the-art foundry technology and labor intensive manufacturing techniques to produce a wide variety of iron, bronze and steel valves and fittings.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N160
Survey number: HAER AL-49
Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction

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1918 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Lavoie, Catherine, transmitter
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Library of Congress
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