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The report in question is:
Troup, Charles G., Athur G. Barnes, and Norman F. Barka
1978 The Potts and Wilson Iron forge/Foundry: Patowmack Canal.
Submitted to Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern and the National Park
Service, Contract No. CX-2000-7-0055. Copies available at the
Virginia Department of Historic Resources, File FX2.
Contrary to the report's conclusions, this excavation was of a forge
not a foundry. The recovered plan and the artifacts were consistent
with a forge. The only support for the claim that it was a foundry
was a letter from the man who ran Lynchburg Foundry (and didn't know
a great deal about historical forges) and that they recovered cast
iron, which is the raw material for a finery forge.
I would be happy to send you a copy of my iron bibliography (about 75
pages). I have spent most of my time looking at the 18th century. But
the list is much more comprehensive. It is also full of holes (I keep
adding and adding and adding).
James Brothers
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On Aug 15, 2007, at 13:57, Joe Dent wrote:
> Kim - There were significant investigations done by the old
> Southside firm
> (somehow I believe aligned with College of William and Mary in
> 1970s) at
> Matildaville (sp.?) In Virginia. It was an industrial village in
> early 19th
> century associated with nearby Patowmack Canal. I know Southside
> excavated
> the shed that housed a trip-hammer and some other nearby associated
> structures. Settlement is now within Great Falls National Park
> (NPS) so
> that unit would be a starting point in a search for the reports.
>
> The America's Industrial Heritage Project (also NPS) in
> Pennsylvania may
> also have done work on foundries in Johnstown area and beyond.
> They must
> still exist in one bureaucratic form or another.
>
> Joe Dent
> American University
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