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Title	Screw steamers at sheerlegs of Mystic Iron Works wharf, Pistol Point (Mystic).
Creator	Scholfield & Holmes.
Place	Pistol Point (Mystic, Conn.) Mystic Bridge (Conn.) Mystic (Conn.) Mason Island (Conn.) Mystic River (Conn.)
Topic	Paddle steamers Steamboats Boats and boating Shipyards Shipfitting
Topic-Organization, Vessel	A.J. Ingersoll (Steamboat) W.W. Coit (Steamboat) Charles Mallory & Sons George Greenman & Company Mystic Iron Works Reliance Machine Co
Genre	Photographs
Theme	Environment Infrastructure Livelihood
Description	A new screw steamer, possibly the A.J. Ingersoll, lies at the sheerlegs at the Mystic Iron Works wharf, Pistol Point, Mystic. The vessel is in the process of being fitted, her smokestack having been lowered into place. The sheerlegs are visible behind her. Pine Hill on Mason's Island can be seen in the background. The outboard screw steamer to the right of the new vessel is in the process of being overhauled and is partially rerigged. To the right, across the Mystic River, the side-wheel steamer W.W. Coit is being reconditioned. A small unidentified schooner can be seen to the far left on the other side of Mystic Iron Works.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Mystic Iron Works, 1862-1873, manufactured and fitted engines and boilers for vessels. Its boom period was during and immediately after the Civil War when it fitted and refitted a number of vessels. The company also built one vessel, the iron-hulled screw towboat Montaines. The screw steamer A.J. Ingersoll was built (1866) by Charles Mallory & Sons of Mystic and owned in part by the Mallorys. After operating on the C. H. Mallory & Co. New York-Galveston line for a short time, she was sold, and spent most of her career in China (renamed the Manchu). The steamer was lost at sea in 1874. The W.W. Coit was built by George Greenman & Co. in 1864, and her machinery manufactured at the Reliance Machine Co. in Mystic. She served in the Civil War and later operated between Sag Harbor, Greenport (Long Island) and New York City. She burned to the waterline in 1893 in Washington, D.C. The Charles Mallory & Sons shipyard was located on the east (Stonington) bank of the Mystic River, approximately on the site of the present duPont Preservation Shipyard at Mystic Seaport. It produced a number of sail and steam vessels from 1851 to 1875, with the Civil War period the most active. George Greenman and Company was a family firm owned by three ot the Greenman Brothers, George, Clark and Thomas. They built 97 vessels between 1837 and 1878. The shipyard was located at Adams Point in the Greenmanville section of Mystic, a site that is now part of Mystic Seaport. Pine Hill was on the north end of Masons Island, and was reduced by quarrying by the end of the nineteenth century. On reverse is printed: "Scholfield & Holmes/ Photographers/ Mystic Bridge, - Ct." Scholfield & Holmes was a partnership of professional photographer Everett A. Scholfield and C. D. Holmes. It was one of several partnerships undertaken by Scholfield over the course of his career. He worked primarily in Mystic and New London from 1865-1913. Scholfield & Holmes dissolved in July 1866. Mystic River was the name for the area of Mystic village on the Groton side of the Mystic River. This area had formerly been known as Portersville.
Date created	1866.
Physical format	1 photograph : carte de visite ; 2 1/2 x 4 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1993.17.183 File name: IMG0010-4773.PCD
Source	Mystic Seaport
Collection	Scholfield Collection.
Rights	Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from Mystic Seaport.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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