Echoes From The Attic and Poems, DIAMOND IRONWORKS, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Jan. 2001
Typed by Belford Carver
Written by by Edna F. Campbell
Copyrighted by Edna F. Campbell
With special thanks to her family for permission to use her works.

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DIAMOND IRONWORKS, LTD. 1910

Parking space did not pose a problem in Hammond in 1910, in the era of an old 
machine shop, Diamond Ironworks, Ltd., located on the corner of South Cypress and 
East Coleman streets.  An old model T Ford focused the central interest of a group 
of men, who had gathered there for business.  The automobile was parked in front 
of the shop owned by F. B. Coyne and his two sons-in-law, George F. Smith and 
George E. Boos.  This was a popular place of industry catering to the needs of 
machinists and lumbermen throughout the parish.

A number of years later, a bottling plant building replaced the machine shop, but 
it too has moved and the building now located there is the recently acquired 
property of Morris and Alex Watsky, operators of a candy store.  The bottling 
firm moved to a location on the federal highway 51 in Hammond.

Coyne's daughter, Miss Edna Coyne, still resides in Hammond, and assisted in 
giving information.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, III, 1968, by Edna Campbell)

(Pic Diamond Ironworks, Ltd. 1910)

(Note: The Dixie Candy Company moved into the building, which is now vacant, after 
the CocaCola Company moved to what is now 725 South Morrison Blvd (US Hwy 51).  
The  Daily Star Publishing Company now occupies the building on South Morrison 
Blvd.  BEC, 1/2001)