IRON IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES.
Original Find Was in North Carolina, While the First Attempt to Manufacture It Was Made in Virginia in 1619.
Original Find Was in North Carolina, While the First Attempt to Manufacture It Was Made in Virginia in 1619.
Original Find Was in North Carolina, While the First Attempt to Manufacture It Was Made in Virginia in 1619.
Iron is, fortunately, the most abundant of metals as well as the most useful, and is to be found in almost all parts of the world.
The first recorded find was in North Carolina in 1585, while the first effort to manufacture it was made in Virginia in 1619.
The works were destroyed by Indians in 1622. The next attempt was at Lynn, Massachusetts, where a blast furnace was started in 1643, which produced some “sow†iron in 1645, and where a forge was built in 1648. Bog-ore was generally used in New England in colonial days.
The first export of iron (bar) to England was made in 1717, and the first pig-iron in 1728. Up to 1720, Massachusetts was the chief seat of the iron industry in the colonies. In the year 1750, Pennsylvania became the leading iron-producing colony.