Terry Dinsmore, Collector, Cast Iron Tools
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3841
Two cast iron tools, a hearth implement and a wedge for splitting wood. The hearth implement is 2 ft. 8 in. in length with the metal bent in a closed hook shape at one end and a curved piece of flattened metal attached to the other. The wedge is 6 1/2 in. long and 1 1/2 in. at it widest part. The surface of both tools is rusted. The tools were excavated near to the remnants of an industrial hearth near Sunset Beach, Cheat Lake, West Virginia. The site of excavation is several hundred yards from where the Jackson Ironworks was located. See "Historical Note" for further information regarding the Jackson Ironworks.
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The Jackson Ironworks (or Jackson's Ironworks) was originally operated by Samuel Jackson and began operating around 1809. The works were located in Monongalia County, along the east side of the Cheat River near Ice's Ferry. The Jackson Ironworks manufactured hand-wrought nails. Although the works expanded greatly over the next forty years and was perhaps the most significant antebellum ironworks in northern (West) Virginia, the works were closed by 1860. The Jackson Ironworks is now underneath the waters of Cheat Lake.
0.6 Linear Feet (7 in. (1 flat storage box, 3 in.); (1 drop front box, 4 in.))
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