The Ironworks of the United States: A Directory of the Furnaces, Rolling Mills, Steel Works, Forges and Bloomaries in Every State (Classic Reprint)

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Maine.

Katahdin Iron Works, O. W. Davis, Jr., Bangor. Furnace at Katahdin Iron Works, in Piscataquis county. Charcoal. One stack, 38 x 9, built in 1846 and rebuilt in 1874; hot blast; water-power; annual capacity, 5,700 net tons. This furnace is supplied with limonite ore obtained about a mile from the Works; its quality is very fine, yielding from 55 to 60 percent.

Number of furnaces in Maine: 1 charcoal stack.

Vermont.

Charcoal.

Pittsford Furnace, J. Prichard, Pittsford, Rutland county. One stack, 40 x 10; hot blast; water-power; built in 1844; formerly Vermont Iron Co.; annual capacity, 4,000 net tons. Product, car-wheel and other foundry iron, and Vermont Spiegel.

Shaftsbury Iron Works, Geo. W. Swett & Co., lessees, South Shaftsbury, Bennington county. One stack, 30 x 9½, built in 1863; cold blast; water-power; annual capacity, 3,000 net tons.

Number of furnaces in Vermont: 2 charcoal stacks.

Massachusetts.

Anthracite.

Pomeroy Iron Works, West Stockbridge, Berkshire county. One stack, 50 x 14, built in 1850; burned and rebuilt in 1872; annual capacity, 10,250 net tons. Gen. W. F. Bartlett, Supt. and Treasurer, and Wm. M. Kniffin, Resident Agent.

Charcoal.

Cheshire Furnace, Richmond Iron Works, West Stockbridge, Berkshire county. One stack, 36 x 9, built in 1850. George Church, Treasurer. See Richmond and Van Deusenville Furnaces

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