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Samuel Knight (with the cane) and his skilled workers, ca. 1885. Photo from the
Amador County Archive.
Amador County Archive.
| Welcome to the Knight Foundry Historic 1872 Water-Powered Ironworks An historic preservation project of the non-profit Knight Foundry Corporation in cooperation with the City of Sutter Creek The Knight Foundry Corporation is dedicated to securing historic Knight Foundry in Public Trust ownership, and to renovating and operating this national treasure. |
KNIGHT FOUNDRY NEWS
ABOUT KNIGHT FOUNDRY
JOIN US IN SAVING THIS UNIQUE PLACE!
Capital Campaign to Save Knight Foundry Launched, with E-Z On-line
giving features. You can provide support for Knight Foundry with the
following web services:
1. Click the JustGive button to make a direct credit card on-line donation.
2. Use iGive for every purchase you make at over 680 major on-line stores
(at no cost to you!). Just designate Knight Foundry in your iGive profile.
3. Use the Goodsearch a Yahoo! powered search engine; every internet
search you make will trigger a donation to Knight Foundry (at no cost to
you!). Just select Knight Foundry before you search.
VISITING KNIGHT FOUNDRY
The Knight Foundry is not currently open to the public during escrow.
Visitors to Sutter Creek can look at the exteriors of these remarkable historic
buildings, peer through the windows, and look forward to what it will be
like when the Foundry is reopened. Your contribution will help us close
escrow and resume tours, workshops and historic cast iron production.
Keep an eye on our website, too. We hope to be able to re-open later in 2008.
Site updated 26 Mar 08
Site Content (c) 2000-2008 Knight Foundry Corporation, All Rights Reserved
- Looking back at 2007, Looking ahead to 2008
- Knight Foundry Purchase Agreement Signed
- $870,750 Matching Grant State Reserved for Knight Foundry
ABOUT KNIGHT FOUNDRY
- For a comprehensive overview of our vision and plans for Knight
Foundry, here is a detailed project description from our 2004 proposal
to the California Cultural and Historical Endowment
- Los Angeles Times Front Page Feature: “Old Foundry a Diamond in
the Rough”: A sensitive portrait of the human dimension of historic
skills preservation.
- The Amador Canal and the Impulse Turbine OR How Samuel Knight
Created Hydro-Electric Power: Knight Foundry as an pioneering
California technology incubator, published January 24, 2007 in the
Amador Ledger Dispatch. Here's the on-line version
- Sacramento's KXTV, Channel 10, California Postcard feature: a nice
visual profile of Knight Foundry at work.
- The Foundry was featured in a segment of the History Channel's
Save Our History show, in an episode called Gold Rush Ghost Towns.
MORE Order the DVD of the episode.
JOIN US IN SAVING THIS UNIQUE PLACE!
Capital Campaign to Save Knight Foundry Launched, with E-Z On-line
giving features. You can provide support for Knight Foundry with the
following web services:
1. Click the JustGive button to make a direct credit card on-line donation.
2. Use iGive for every purchase you make at over 680 major on-line stores
(at no cost to you!). Just designate Knight Foundry in your iGive profile.
3. Use the Goodsearch a Yahoo! powered search engine; every internet
search you make will trigger a donation to Knight Foundry (at no cost to
you!). Just select Knight Foundry before you search.
VISITING KNIGHT FOUNDRY
The Knight Foundry is not currently open to the public during escrow.
Visitors to Sutter Creek can look at the exteriors of these remarkable historic
buildings, peer through the windows, and look forward to what it will be
like when the Foundry is reopened. Your contribution will help us close
escrow and resume tours, workshops and historic cast iron production.
Keep an eye on our website, too. We hope to be able to re-open later in 2008.
Site updated 26 Mar 08
Site Content (c) 2000-2008 Knight Foundry Corporation, All Rights Reserved
