A history of the Andover Ironworks : come penny, go pound / Kevin W. Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Kevin W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Andover Ironworks (Andover, N.J.).

Iron-works--New Jersey--Andover--History.

Iron-works.

Iron industry and trade--New Jersey--Andover--History.

Iron industry and trade.

History.

Andover (N.J.)--History--18th century.

Andover (N.J.).

Andover (N.J.)--History--19th century.

New Jersey--Andover.

Physical Description:

127 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : The History Press, [2013]

Summary:

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 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Place in history

Discovery

Andover Furnace

Andover Forge

Blister steel

Depression

Revolutionary War

Peace returns

The end.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-115) and index.

ISBN:

1626192189

9781626192188

OCLC:

855607245

Publisher Number:

99956140103