Editing Medina, New York (section)

==== Foundries ====
The Bignall Foundry<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 14, 1915 |journal=The Medina Daily Journal |title=Building of the First Foundry Dam in Medina, 1871 |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn94057567/1915-10-14/ed-1/seq-3/ |language=en |issue=1915/10/14 |pages=3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=February 22, 1965 |journal=The Medina Daily Journal and Medina Register |title=Blaze Ruins Portion of Unused Foundry|url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn91066521/1965-02-22/ed-1/seq-1/ |language=en |issue=1965/02/22 |pages=1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=August 26, 1970 |journal=The Journal-Register |title=Gone Forever! |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn98067642/1970-08-26/ed-1/seq-1/ |language=en |issue=1970/08/26 |pages=1}}</ref><ref name=":19">{{Cite journal |date=October 4, 1972 |journal=The Journal-Register |title=Take A Trip Back -- The Medina of 1920 |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn93063954/1972-10-04/ed-1/seq-11/ |language=en |issue=1972/10/04 |pages=11}}</ref> began selling iron pumps, sinks, and more in 1861.<ref name=":15">{{Cite book |last=Grinnell |first=E.W. |title=Medina, Here's To Our Heritage |publisher=Medina Historical Society |pages=70–72}}</ref> After several fires, the company was part of a consolidation into the Central Foundry Company along with two other local foundries, A.L. Swett Company and Beach & Co in 1899.<ref name=":15" /> The Central Foundry focused on soil pipe manufacturing. A.L Swett Iron Works<ref name=":19" /> opened in 1871 to manufacture hardware specialties and continued operations in Medina through the 1920s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grinnell |first=E.W. |title=Medina, Here's To Our Heritage |publisher=Medina Historical Society |pages=71–72}}</ref> Beach & Co manufactured plumbing supplies starting in the 1880s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grinnell |first=E.W. |title=Medina, Here's To Our Heritage |publisher=Medina Historical Society |pages=72}}</ref>