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Puerto Rico Iron Works (founded as ''Porto Rico Iron Works'') was a heavy industry iron foundry located in barrio La Playa in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1918.〔(Foundation year )〕 The foundry "was Puerto Rico's most prolific steel bridge fabricator in the 20th Century"〔(Builder and Designer of Bridge Structures ) "BATEY COLUMBIA RAILROAD BRIDGE - Spanning the Maunabo River" (Barrio Calzada, Maunabo, PR), In "HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD". By National Park Service, Southeast Region, Department of the Interior. Atlanta, Georgia 30303. Page 6 Retrieved November 18, 2009.〕 and the largest iron foundry in the Antilles.〔(''National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Edificio Empresas Ferre, a.k.a., Centros Isolina Ferre.'' ) Juan Llanes Santos, Historian. Puerto Rico State Historic Preservation Office. 19 June 2013. San Juan, Puerto Rico. National Register of Historic Places. ID # 13000638. Page 7. Retrieved 27 November 2013.〕 ==History== Puerto Rico Iron Works (PRIW) was founded by Antonio Ferré Bacallao,〔(''Puerto Rico Grieves Over The Loss Of Its Premier Statesman Four Months Short Of His 100th Birthday: Luis A. Ferre Aguayo (1904-2003).'' ) Marialba Martinez. Puerto Rico Herald. Caribbean Business section. October 30, 2003. Retrieved 26 October 2011.〕 an 1896 immigrant from Cuba, whose father was a French engineer that had worked in the construction of the Panama Canal. Antonio Ferré's family would become one of the most legendary families in Puerto Rico: one of his sons, Luis Antonio Ferré became governor of the Island from 1969 to 1973, and one of his daughters, Isolina Ferré, known as ''The Mother Teresa of Puerto Rico'', received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton in 1999 for her outstanding role in community activities, including the founding of a small hospital and school in Playa de Ponce next to the iron foundry called ''Centro de Orientacion y Servicios''. Antonio Ferre founded Puerto Rico Iron Works after experience he had garnished from his short employnment experience at Puerto Rico's first iron foundry ''Sobrinos de Portilla Foundry'' in San Juan.〔(Sobrinos de Portilla )〕 After learning that his uncle, Luis Bacallao, had settled in Ponce, Antonio Ferre moved to Ponce where his family would establish roots.〔(Moved to Ponce )〕 Son Luis Ferre helped transform Antonio's Puerto Rico Iron Works into a highly successful business after returning to Puerto Rico in 1925, having himself completed a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT. Luis recruited some very bright talent for the company, including Raúl G. Villaronga, the company's accountant who would later become the first Puerto Rican mayor of a Texas city. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Puerto Rico Iron Works」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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