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Seven early 19th-century lime kilns survive in NRHP-listed Rockport Historic Kiln Area. Thomaston, Maine; Harris Farm (Walkersville, Maryland) List of Michigan State Historic Sites; Grey Cloud Lime Kiln, Cottage Grove, Minnesota, NRHP-listed; G. A. Carlson Lime Kiln, Red Wing, Minnesota, NRHP-listed; Mississippi Lime Kiln, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
The beehive-shaped kilns are each about 20 feet (6.1 m) tall and 20 feet (6.1 m) in diameter. When operating, each kiln used 30 to 40 cords of Douglas fir wood per load, producing about 1,500 to 2,000 bushels (70 cubic meters) of charcoal over a two-day burn. The kiln operation lasted for less than three years, employing 150 to 200 people at ...
Thunderbird Archaeological District and Jasper quarry, near Limeton, Virginia, is an archaeological district described as consisting of "three sites—Thunderbird Site, the Fifty Site, and the Fifty Bog. It is located in Warren County Virginia, near modern-day Front Royal, in the Shenandoah River Valley.
The five granite beehive-shaped charcoal smelting kilns that have survived in Frisco were created by the Frisco Mining and Smelting Company under the supervision of Benjamin Y. Hampton, primarily for the Horn Silver Mine, between 1877 and 1880 for $500-$1000 apiece. Each kiln varies in size from the other, anywhere from 16 to 32 feet in diameter.
Chatsworth Calera also called Chatsworth Reservoir Kiln Site is one of the few surviving structures of the early 1800s lime industry. This kiln marked the introduction to California of the European industrial process for vitrifying limestone building blocks which were used in the construction of the San Fernando mission and other mission buildings.
Chatsworth Reservoir Kiln Site The CNP contains Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #141, [ 5 ] thus designated on April 2, 1975, by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission. Also known as the Chatsworth Calera, monument #141 is a centuries-old kiln used for burning limestone in the making of lime for concrete , mortar , and whitewash ...
The Katahdin Iron Works is a Maine state historic site located in the unorganized township of the same name. It is the site of an ironworks which operated from 1845 to 1890. . In addition to the kilns of the ironworks (of which only one survives), the community was served by a railroad and had a 100-room hot
The first kiln at the Coplay Cement Company was a dome kiln. Dome kilns were inefficient; they had to shut down often. In 1893 Coplay Cement built Mill B, containing the Schoefer kilns standing today. Originally enclosed in a large building, Schoefer kilns could run continuously. Soon, however, the even more efficient rotary kilns came into use.