Iron Ore on the N&W 1910

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Just Google "iron furnaces Virginia" and you will get a wealth of 
information.  The site "Appalachian Voice...." gives a particularly good 
description of early iron making in Virginia.  Another site purports to list 
"Iron Furnaces of Virginia," but I noticed that it omits the Graham Iron 
furnace that has been mentioned in several articles in the Bluefield 
newspaper and posted on this Mailing List.

Gordon Hamilton

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> Did these iron furnaces also require a local source of limestone for use 

> in

> their reduction from ore to iron process . . . as do blast furnaces for

> steel?  By the turn of the century I believe they were past the stone

> furnace process phase in many places and were bring in "modern" equipment

> down from Pennsylvania?  I would guess each area had their natural alloy

> content . . . . and that limited their customers?  I'm guessing their 

> local

> ore sources dwindled also.

>

> Where are the good sources of information about the Virginia iron and 

> steel

> furnace industries?

>

> Al Kresse

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