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Roaring Run Furnace
| Name | Roaring Run Furnace |
| Ortssitz | Strom (USA) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Hochofenwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Liegt in der Nähe von Strom; Ort als "Junction Store" angegeben. One stack; not in blast for several years. - Roaring Run Hot-blast Charcoal Furnace. |
| Quellenangaben | [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 61] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1832/1838 |
Gebaut 1832 oder 1838 |
| 1847 |
Umgebaut |
| 12.1854 |
Der Hochofen wird abgeblasen (oder 1865?) |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Roheisen |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
[Ironworks of U.S. (1876)] |
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| ZEIT | 1876 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Liegt in der Nähe von Strom; Ort als "Junction Store" angegeben. One stack; not in blast for several years. - Roaring Run Hot-blast Charcoal Furnace, owned by F.B. Deane of Lynchburg and Samuel C. Robinson of Richmond, Virginia, situated on Roarign Run, a branch of Craig's Creek, four miles southwest of Dibbrell's Sulphur Springs, thirty-six miles northwest of Bonsack's station on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and forty miles south of west from Lexington, was built about 1832, rebuilt in 1847, 8½ feet across the bosh by 36(?) feet high, and made in thirty-five weeks of 1854 about 800 tons of metal out of brown hematite ore from a bank one mile distant south; was abandoned in December 1854 and is now dilapidated [Lesley (1859) 72]. |
| QUELLE | [Ironworks of the United States (1876)] |
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