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A History of the Andover Ironworks
ISBN
9781625846945
Genre
Algemeen
Verschenen
17-09-2013
Bindwijze
Ebook EPUB
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Arcadia Publishing
Auteur(s)
Kevin W. Wright

A History of the Andover Ironworks

Come Penny, Go Pound

Kevin W. Wright
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  • Soon
  • after
  • Philadelphia
  • began
  • to
  • exploit
  • New
  • Jersey's
  • largest
  • hematite
  • deposit
  • in
  • 1758,
  • Andover
  • Furnace
  • and
  • Forge
  • began
  • producing
  • the
  • best
  • metal
  • in
  • the
  • world.
  • Its
  • product
  • was
  • so
  • desirable
  • that
  • the
  • newly
  • formed
  • American
  • military
  • wrested
  • control
  • from
  • Loyalist
  • owners
  • in
  • 1778.
  • This
  • frontier
  • industrial
  • outpost
  • endured
  • thirty-five
  • years
  • before
  • labor
  • costs,
  • competition
  • from
  • cheap
  • imports,
  • careless
  • consumption
  • of
  • woodlands
  • and
  • difficulty
  • in
  • transporting
  • its
  • products
  • finally
  • extinguished
  • its
  • fires.
  • Today,
  • repurposed
  • eighteenth-century
  • stone
  • mills
  • and
  • mansions
  • at
  • Andover
  • and
  • Waterloo
  • testify
  • to
  • the
  • combination
  • of
  • rich
  • ore,
  • abundant
  • water
  • power
  • and
  • seemingly
  • endless
  • forests
  • that
  • long
  • ago
  • attracted
  • teamsters,
  • woodcutters,
  • charcoal
  • burners,
  • miners,
  • molders
  • and
  • smelters
  • to
  • the
  • Appalachian
  • Highlands
  • of
  • New
  • Jersey.
  • Local
  • expert
  • Kevin
  • Wright
  • tells
  • the
  • hidden
  • story
  • of
  • the
  • facets
  • and
  • personalities
  • that
  • once
  • made
  • Andover
  • iron
  • so
  • widely coveted.
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