1860 Survey of Manufactures
For Augusta and Franklin

Augusta County

Manufactures Number of
Establishments		 Capital Invested Cost of Raw Materials Number of Hands Annual Figures
M. F. Costs of Labor Value of Products
Agricultural Implements-threshers 3 $6,500 $3,623 16 --- $5,688 $9,300
Blacksmithing 17 7,550 7,321 39 --- 9,708 21,676
Boots and Shoes 7 3,590 9,239 26 --- 7,800 21,530
Bread, Crackers &c. 1 400 1,200 2 --- 360 1,900
Carriages 5 12,100 11,050 31 --- 8,580 30,700
Cigars 3 4,500 4,500 10 --- 3,960 10,850
Clothing, men's 1 200 150 2 --- 408 600
Confectionery 6 4,300 4,100 7 --- 1,608 7,200
Cooperage 5 750 1,320 10 --- 1,122 3,134
Dentistry 2 950 950 2 --- 960 2,900
Flour and meal 62 287,000 391,784 89 --- 23,280 462,255
Furniture, cabinet 1 300 1,000 3 --- 1,440 3,000
Gas 1 17,600 2,400 4 --- 1,440 5,000
Hats and Caps 1 1,500 500 1 --- 210 850
Iron, bar, railroad, & sheet 1 7,000 2,000 7 --- 1,200 5,000
Iron Castings 2 9,000 3,830 10 --- 3,600 10,000
Iron, pig 1 17,000 8,370 32 --- 6,000 16,000
Leather 12 39,300 21,805 29 --- 7,668 33,647
Liquors, distilled 18 87,458 58,339 37 --- 9,108 120,777
Lumber, sawed 22 39,562 17,505 48 --- 11,220 40,024
Manganese 1 2,000 500 10 --- 3,600 5,250
Marble & Stone Work 1 3,600 1,000 5 --- 720 2,500
Millinery 3 700 7,500 --- 9 1,080 12,050
Paper, printing 1 22,500 10,000 7 4 3,000 18,000
Photographs 1 2,000 500 1 --- 360 1,200
Plaster, ground 3 6,300 11,960 4 --- 924 13,800
Pottery ware 1 200 100 2 --- 900 1,200
Saddlery and Harness 4 2,525 1,900 7 --- 1,632 4,750
Tin, copper, and sheet-iron ware 2 2,225 4,970 5 --- 1,440 8,000
Wagons, carts, &c. 3 1,000 280 7 --- 1,920 3,000
Wool carding 4 4,400 5,000 5 --- 414 6,620
Woollen goods 2 45,000 20,850 13 18 7,764 33,000
Total 197 639,010 615,546 471 31 129,114 915,713

Franklin County

Manufactures Number of
Establishments		 Capital Invested Cost of Raw Materials. Number of Hands Annual Figures
M. F. Costs of Labor Value of Products
Agricultural Implements: Miscellaneous 5 $10,100 $5,279 24 --- $6,204 $23,935
Agricultural Implements: Ploughs 5 2,090 1,681 7 --- 1,728 3,405
Bark, ground 2 900 1,860 2 --- 288 2,935
Blacksmithing 27 10,100 10,680 52 --- 10,524 23,308
Boots and Shoes 30 20,075 22,758 95 8 19,536 51,610
Bread 1 600 2,600 2 --- 384 5,000
Brick 11 2,820 2,020 28 --- 6,060 13,140
Carriages 15 28,500 21,500 74 --- 17,292 48,383
Cement 1 100 50 1 --- 240 2,000
Cigars 3 6,400 6,300 19 --- 3,000 16,000
Clothing, men's 4 4,150 5,350 6 8 2,640 23,120
Clover hulling 3 6,500 6,200 3 --- 288 8,800
Confectionery 1 1,650 1,650 3 --- 600 3,250
Cooperage 8 3,300 3,782 18 --- 4,116 9,831
Cordage 1 1,000 1,200 2 --- 600 1,800
Edge Tools 1 15,00 5,260 20 --- 6,000 15,000
Flour and Meal 60 440,100 581,695 92 --- 19,788 659,519
Furniture, cabinet 16 14,400 8,395 55 --- 13,044 26,533
Iron, bar, sheet, railroad, &c. 3 34,000 29,500 31 --- 8,304 50,000
Iron blooms 3 36,000 64,150 69 --- 19,560 86,500
Iron, pig 2 54,000 32,800 90 --- 19,440 52,000
Leather 25 191,983 196,516 67 --- 16,716 284,812
Lime 8 12,360 7,250 20 --- 4,620 17,720
Liquors, distilled 7 31,092 33,451 13 --- 3,696 62,080
Liquors, malt 3 22,500 7,300 10 --- 2,328 22,700
Lumber, planed 1 20,000 8,000 23 --- 6,900 20,000
Lumber, sawed 26 19,250 13,375 37 --- 8,220 30,460
Machinery, steam-engines &c. 5 54,300 14,007 72 --- 18,036 52,600
Marble and stone work 1 400 400 1 --- 300 800
Mineral water 1 1,000 165 1 --- 240 500
Paper, printing 2 45,000 6,090 18 --- 4,080 21,000
Pottery ware 3 4,800 1,982 10 --- 2,760 5,660
Saddlery and harness 11 10,300 11,508 31 --- 7,836 27,255
Silver-plated ware 1 1,000 560 2 --- 648 1,200
Tar 1 500 45 2 --- 324 630
Tin, copper, and sheet-iron ware 10 18,800 7,949 24 --- 5,520 16,879
Wagons, carts &c. 5 2,350 1,375 9 --- 1,776 3,841
Wind mills 1 400 225 2 --- 300 1,250
Woollen goods 4 18,500 13,425 28 2 5,436 26,770
Total 317 1,146,320 1,138,153 1,036 18 249,372 1,722,626
Graph: average profits per manufacturing establishment by industry and county, 1860