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19682
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The Piedmont boasted a manufacturing strength in cotton and textile mills but during the late 18th- and early 19th- centuries iron smelting was a nascent industry. The earliest furnace was built by 1770 in Orange County and showed greatest promise in Lincoln County. A brief history of both discovering raw ore and iron manufacturing is presented.
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27617
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Redwell Ironworks, a joint business venture of Derick Pennybacker, John Jordon, and Richard Patton, was a prominent iron producer in the Shenandoah Valley during the eighteenth century. Surviving wrought iron is spread throughout the eastern states and remain as direct evidence of the industrial success of Redwell.
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27694
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Isaac Zane, Jr. of Philadelphia was a prominent iron maker who operated Marlboro Furnace in Frederick County, Virginia during the eighteenth century. Zane’s products of his furnace are among the very finest known southern cast iron.
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27839
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The Elk Ridge Furnace was a significant example of the iron industry in eighteenth-century Maryland. The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina researched the history of the furnace. Documents of the furnace and its maker, William Williams, offers insight into its history, workforce and colonial southern iron industry.
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