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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).
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 Knoxville Iron Company was an iron production and coal mining company that operated primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, and its vicinity, in the late 19th and 20th centuries. [1] The company was Knoxville's first major post-Civil War manufacturing firm, and played a key role in bringing heavy industry and railroad facilities ...
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.
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 ...
Iron ore had been a particularly plentiful commodity to ship from the Iron Range region, with the seven railroads serving Duluth in the 1891 hauling more than 7 billion pounds of freight. [2] The Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway was chartered on February 11, 1891, [3] then incorporated in May 1891 [4] by the Merritt brothers of Duluth.