1867-09-25, Edgefield (SC) Advertiser; report that Tredegar Iron Works employed 600 people and paid out $25,000 in wages in August
From the Edgefield (SC) Advertiser, 9/25/1867, p. 1, c. 6
Tredegar Iron Works at Richmond, Va., covering eight acres of ground, employed during the past month six hundred hands, and disbursed $25,000 in wages.