Dear Grant,
While I have not worked on the company store or tenant houses on a
furnace site, I have worked on a blacksmith shop and studied several
others. Most of the works I examined dealt mostly with the furnaces and
casting houses.
Here are some citations that you find useful.
Jacob, Suzanne Fellman
1999 The History of Joanna Furnace, 1791-1999: The History of a Berks
County, Pennsylvania, Charcoal Iron Furnace, Hay Creek Valley Historical
Association, Morgantown, PA.
It rambles a bit but gives some good descriptions. The company store
still remains and excavations have been conducted on tenant homes. If
you contact the author you might get more info.
Council, Bruce R., Nicholas Honerkamp, and M. Elizabeth Will
1992 Industry and Technology in Ante-bellum Tennessee: The Archaeology
of Bluff Furnace, University of Tennessee PRess, Knoxville.
I think remember that most of this is concerned with the furnace it's
self but there were illustrations of the complex. It is a little closer
to you than Joanna Furnace.
Grant Q wrote:
>
> HISTarchers.....
>
> I'm currently involved in a field project where we are
> doing some archaeological investigations at a 19th
> century Iron Furnace in western Kentucky. This field
> season, we are investigating a foundation labelled on
> a map as the company store, and several areas of the
> site where Chinese and African-American workers would
> have lived.
>
> I was wandering if much has been written about similar
> investigations. I'm just wanting to get my hands on
> any literature dealing with similar projects, if it
> exists. I'm especially interested in anything dealing
> with excavations of 19th century company stores and
> other buildings common on large industrial sites. I'm
> not as well read as I should be in the area of
> Industrial archaeology, so any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> -Grant
>
> Grant Quertermous
> Field Assistant
> Center Furnace P.I.T. Project
> Land Between the Lakes Nat. Rec. Area
>
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