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Leonidas Merritt (February 20, 1844 – August 9, 1926) was an American politician and businessman and one of the Seven Iron Brothers, iron ore pioneers. [ 1 ] Merriitt was born in Chautauqua County, New York .
The Seven Iron Men, also known as the Merritt brothers, were iron-ore pioneers in the Mesabi Range in northeastern Minnesota and the creation of the city that is now known as Mountain Iron. [1] In the late 1800s, the Merritt family founded the largest iron mine in the world and initiated the consolidation of the American railway system into ...
The discovery of a boulder of high-grade iron ore by Leonidas Merritt in 1887 during a railroad survey prompted he and his brothers to establish the Mountain Iron Mine in 1892. By 1893 the "Seven Iron Brothers" had claims on a significant portion of the Mesabi Range and had built the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway (DM&IR).
Cast iron cookware will be around for another 100 years, I think there is something about it being real, and based in the earth." Man Made Content Henry Lodge is chief operating officer of the ...
There are 16 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Ten of these are the ruins of iron furnaces. In the 19th century, Stewart County was a major center for iron mining and production. Production of iron in the county began some time shortly before 1828 and continued until 1927, when the last blast furnace shut down.
US iron ore made up 2.5 percent of the total mined worldwide in 2015. Employment as of 2014 was 5,750 in iron mines and iron ore treatment plants. [3] US iron ore mining is dominated by the Precambrian banded iron formation deposits around Lake Superior, in Minnesota and Michigan; such deposits were also formerly mined in Wisconsin. For the ...
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was founded as the Sewanee Furnace Company, [2] a small mining concern established in 1852 by Nashville entrepreneurs [2] seeking to exploit Tennessee's rich coal reserves and the 19th century railroad boom.
Cardiff Iron and Coal Co. Advertisement, Boston Globe 1890: Cardiff, as it appeared on an 1892 railroad map Cardiff was a company town located in Roane County , Tennessee , United States . Established in the early 1890s by New England investors, the town was to house workers and managers for a large-scale mining operation that sought to utilize ...