Louisville Cement Company Papers, 1884-2004
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Louisville Cement Company Papers
Paper: 1884-2004
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Special Collections.
Size of Collection: 1 cubic foot
Location Number: Mss./BB/L888C
Scope and Content Note
Letters, business papers, photographs, business publications and histories of the Louisville Cement Company. The collection offers information on Sellersburg and Speed, Indiana focusing on the Louisville Cement Company. Information is also included on production of cement and concrete as well as the Speed family. Contains some information about the buyout of the company in the 1980s.
Historical Note
The Louisville Cement Company was founded in the early 1800s. Although the official company history states that the company began in 1830, records show that the company’s earliest transaction was almost twenty-five years earlier. In the 1880s, the Louisville Cement Company formed a trust, the Union Cement Association (later the Western Cement Association), with four other local cement manufacturers. Through most of the twentieth-century, the Louisville Cement Company was a success in the cement industry and invented Brixment, a cement designed specifically for use as mortar between bricks and concrete blocks. In the mid-1980s, the Louisville Cement Company was bought out by Coplay Cement Company of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, a subsidiary of the French owned company, Societe des Ciments Francais.
Folder List
Folder 1: Scrapbook, 1884-1919
Folder 2: Scrapbook, 1920-1929
Folder 3: Scrapbook, 1930-1954
Folder 4: Scrapbook, 1955-1969
Folder 5: Scrapbook, 1969-2004
Folder 6: Miscellaneous, 1927-2004
Subject Headings
Business enterprises – Indiana – Clark County
Canals – Kentucky – Louisville
Cement
Clark County (Ind.)
Concrete
Locks (Hydraulic engineering) – Kentucky – Louisville
Louisville (Ky.) – History
Louisville Cement Company (Louisville, Ky.)
Sellersburg (Ind.) – History
Speed (Ind.) – History
Speed family
Speed, James, 1866
Speed, Joshua F. (Joshua Fry), 1814-1882
Speed, William Shallcross, 1873-1955
University of Louisville (Louisville, Ky.) – History
Western Cement Association