This maker of steam engines, sawmills and related equipment was in business from perhaps the 1860s until the early 1980s. In the 1930s they took over another Macon institution, the Schofield Iron Works, remembered as a maker of steam engines.

Information Sources

• Undated brochure, ca. 1910, showing their steam sawmills and related equipment.
• Messages on an online genealogy forum indicate that this maker was formerly known as Schofield Iron Works. It also says that it survived into the 1970s but is no longer in business. A couple of the messages mention a sketch of the Works, "copied from Butler, John C., Historical Record Of Macon And Central Georgia, c. 1879 by J.W. Burke Co., Macon, GA. ( published by Middle Georgia Historical Society, Inc., Macon, Georgia, 1969."
• A 1991 article mentions that the former Taylor Iron Works building had been unoccupied for nearly a decade.
• A Smokstak.com posting by Mike McKnight says, "Schofield Iron Works was bought out during the great depression by another cross-town rival, Taylor Iron Works. Taylor kept building Schofield engines quite late; up to the 1960's so I've been told. I do know that I've seen Taylor catalogs from the late 1940s that still featured Schofield engines."
• An online used-book site listed the following: "Taylor Iron Works & Supply Co. MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES. Catalog No. 27. Macon, GA Taylor Iron Works (1927)"
• A patent search failed to turn up anything associated with this maker. A search on Schofield turned up several patents, but none that are related to woodworking machinery.