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They are associated with the remaining vestiges of the Copake Iron Works, an iron extraction and production operation established in the mid-19th century. It includes the remains of a charcoal blast furnace (ca. 1872), frame office and attached brick powder storage building, brick engine house and pattern shop, four frame workers houses, and a ...
Franklin Furnace ca. 1900 Fluorescent minerals of the Franklin mineral district: franklinite (black), willemite (green), and calcite (red). USGS. Franklin Furnace, also known as the Franklin Mine, is a famous mineral location for rare zinc, [1] iron, and manganese minerals in old mines in Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States.
Howell Works (later the Howell Works Company) was a bog iron-based production facility for pig iron which was established in New Jersey in the early 19th century by American engineer and philanthropist James P. Allaire.
The Boonton Iron Works were founded about 1770 by Samuel Ogden who, with others in his family, purchased a 6-acre (24,000 m 2) tract along the Rockaway River, near present-day Boonton, New Jersey. Here rolling and slitting mills were erected that engaged in the manufacture of nail rods and bar iron .
Iron furnaces require supplies of iron ore, fuel, and flux. [4] In southern New Jersey, bog ore supplied the iron, [5] while the fuel was charcoal made from large tracts of timber. [6] The charcoal was hauled to the furnace by teams from charcoal pits in the woods, while the bog iron was dug at streamside and floated downriver. [3]
The Fagan Iron Works was an iron foundry owned by Lawrence Fagan located in Hudson County, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century. Initially located in Hoboken, the main foundry was later moved to Jersey City. Many of the characteristic iron storefronts that line Washington Street were produced by Fagan Iron Works.
New York's Peter Cooper, an inventor and industrialist purchased Ringwood Manor in 1854. One of the Manor's last owners was Cooper's son-in-law, Abram S. Hewitt, ironmaster, educator, lawyer, U.S. Congressman, and mayor of New York City. A 479-acre (194 ha) area including the manor house was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1966.
J. W. Fiske & Company of New York City was the most prominent American manufacturer of decorative cast iron and cast zinc in the second half of the nineteenth century. [1] In addition to their wide range of garden fountains, statues, urns, and cast-iron garden furniture, they provided many of the cast-zinc Civil War memorials of small towns ...