A History of the Andover Ironworks: Come Penny, Go Pound

A History of the Andover Ironworks: Come Penny, Go Pound
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 143
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ISBN-10 : 9781625846945
ISBN-13 : 1625846940
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Book Synopsis A History of the Andover Ironworks: Come Penny, Go Pound by : Kevin W. Wright

Download or read book A History of the Andover Ironworks: Come Penny, Go Pound written by Kevin W. Wright and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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