From Waymarking "Leeds Iron Foundry - New Orleans.
The Leeds Foundry produced arms for the Confederacy, manufactured two ships for the Confederate Navy, and continued as headquarters and producer of arms for ant-Federal forces after the war. Charles Leeds, the owner, was elected mayor in 1874.
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The Leeds Foundry was the second largest foundry in the South and besides being the world's largest maker of steel cotton bale presses.
(A cotton bale press is a building or machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment. A press for baling cotton bales. This is a very important process when it comes to shipping cotton.)
Up to 400 employees were employed in casting, forging and finishing for the manufacturing of ornamental cast iron and sugar and cotton equipment.
--Old Secesh
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