Galena Manufacturing
Steamboats brought goods to Galena from all over the world, and took away lumber, lead, cigars, flour, beer, bricks, and axle grease, as well as fine finished goods of all sorts.
Pigs of lead awaiting export while the Bawden family pose for a photo.
This Sawmill was located roughly where the Meeker Street pedestrian bridge is today (East Side).
Bricks dry in the sun
Iron rails in one of Galena's many foundries
The Superior Axle Grease factory still stands today
Martin Blum's Brewery on Frankin Street.
Fulton Brewery on Prospect Street
The old flour mill sat on a bend in the river just down stream
Closer view of the flour mill, long after it shut down
Beer was not the only vice produced in Galena
Hand rolling cigars
Ship builders in Galena