The USS Monitor was an iron-hulled steamshipâthe first ironclad warship commissioned by the Union Navy. The need for iron plating on ships only arose
There are basically two types of mining. Most mining in this area was underground. However, the open pit that became known as the #21 Mine in
An Iron Glossary Cast Iron:Â Cast iron is strong but can be brittle due to its carbon content, making it less than ideal for working and shaping. As
As iron production expanded, so did the need for fuel. In the early days of iron, all furnaces and forges were powered by charcoal made in kilns with
Pink was a black Morgan horse owned by General John Hammond. He was foaled and raised on the Hammond family farm in Crown Point with other Morgan
Link to full text of his Travels into North America, 1772 Naturalist Peter Kalm âJuly the 2d. EARLY this morning we set out on our
In the winter of 1776, George Washington dispatched bookseller Henry Knox to Crown Point and Ticonderoga in order to bring the artillery stored there
Philip Skene was a career soldier, enlisting in the British Army in 1739. He saw significant action in Europe and then in North America during the
A member of the influential iron industrialist Hammond family, Thomas Hammond, the son of Charles F. Hammond, lost his life in a product of the iron
