Iron furnaces and iron industry.
Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:
Isaac Meason, Iron Producer, Iron Industry Ledgers
The ledgers highlight the business activities of iron furnaces and stores owned by Isaac Meason, a pioneer iron producer in Fayette County, Pennsylvania (arguably the first west of the Allegheny Mountains). The volumes include records of Union Furnace, Union Iron Works, Mt. Vernon Furnace, Centre Furnace, and a record of teamster work. A small portion of one volume includes a common pleas court docket for Fayette County, PA in the 1830s.
Jackson Family of Monongalia and Preston Counties Papers
Papers of the Jackson family of Monongalia and Preston County, (West) Virginia, including business, financial, and legal documents. Includes Civil War pension records for Henry C. Jackson (1864); business records of Jackson and Lamb documenting transactions with Tassey and Church, Grocers of Pittsburgh (1833-1834); and records regarding Cheat Iron Works, St. John's Furnace, and Hampton Forge (1833 and undated), among other material (1814-1891).
James R. Moreland Papers
John Rogers (1786-1864) Papers
This collection embraces business letters, bills, receipts, notes, orders, checks, and personal correspondence of John Rogers, who was a pioneer merchant and iron manufacturer in Monongalia County, Virginia, during the first half of the nineteenth century.
John Rogers Correspondence
The collection consists largely of correspondence to Morgantown businessman John Rogers from relatives in Pennsylvania and Maryland. It also includes two letters from Sgt. William A. Widney, who was assigned to the U.S. War Department during the Civil War, to a Morgantown friend (possibly William Hennen). One letter was written by an unidentified woman to her grandson, a West Virginia University student.
Lewis Family Papers
Mark Kelly, Compiler, Iron Industry Research Manual for Western Pennsylvania
New River Symposiums Proceedings
Phillip H. Trout, Collector, Notes on Iron Furnaces
Notes on the early iron furnaces in the Allegheny-Botetourt-Roanoke County area of Virginia; a brief history of the John Taylor family, early pioneers in the iron industry; and photographs of the Taylor iron furnaces at Cloverdale, Botetourt County.