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Grace Furnace
| Name | Grace Furnace |
| Ortssitz | Surber (USA) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Hochofenwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Gelegen zwischen Surber, Oriskany und Clifdale; Surber ist der nächstgelegene Ort. Eigentümer: Tredegar Company. Wm. T. Patton, Agent. One charcoal stack, 33 x 9.]; cold blast; built in 1850. |
| Quellenangaben | [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 32] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1850 |
Bau des Hochofens |
| 1864 |
Die Anlage brennt nieder. |
| 1873 |
Wiederaufbau der Anlage |
| 1874 |
Der Hochofen wird wieder angeblasen. |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Roheisen |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
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| ZEIT | 1876 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Gelegen zwischen Surber, Oriskany und Clifdale; Surber ist der nächstgelegene Ort. Eigentümer: Tredegar Company. Wm. T. Patton, Agent. One charcoal stack, 33 x 9.]; cold blast; built in 1850, burned in 1864, rebuilt in 1873, and put in blast in 1874; closed top; annual capacity, 1.600 net tons. - Grace Steam Cold-blast Charcoal Furnace, owned by Shanks and Patton, and managed by Thomas Cornelius, Grace Furnace P.O. Botetourt county Virginia, situated on Craig's Creek seventeen miles southeast of Covington and 17 miles west of Fincastle was built in 1849, 8½ feet across the bosh by 33 feet high, and made in about twenty-six weeks of 1856 about 900 tons of metal out of brown hematite ore from two banks within a hundred yards of teh furnace, mixed with other neighboring ores [Lesley (1859) 72]. |
| QUELLE | [Ironworks of the United States (1876)] |
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