Catoctin Furnace

Author : Elizabeth Yourtee Anderson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625840713
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catoctin Furnace written by Elizabeth Yourtee Anderson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the American Revolution, the Johnson brothers founded Catoctin Furnace near present-day Thurmont. Catoctin iron was turned into bombshells used against the British at the Battle of Yorktown. After the colonies won their independence, business boomed for the ironworks. The labor of African slaves and European immigrants produced household goods, tools and stoves for the young country. A small iron-making village evolved around the industry, and though the furnace closed in 1903, its legacy is still remembered and celebrated today. It was rescued from imminent destruction in the 1960s and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This proud history was chronicled in full by beloved local historian Elizabeth Yourtee Anderson. Discover the story of Catoctin Furnace, which for more than 130 years helped define the industry, history and culture of western Maryland.

Author : Elizabeth Y. Anderson
Publisher : Landmarks
ISBN 13 : 9781626190016
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catoctin Furnace written by Elizabeth Y. Anderson and published by Landmarks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the American Revolution, the Johnson brothers founded Catoctin Furnace near present-day Thurmont. Catoctin iron was turned into bombshells used against the British at the Battle of Yorktown. After the colonies won their independence, business boomed for the ironworks. The labor of African slaves and European immigrants produced household goods, tools and stoves for the young country. A small iron-making village evolved around the industry, and though the furnace closed in 1903, its legacy is still remembered and celebrated today. It was rescued from imminent destruction in the 1960s and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This proud history was chronicled in full by beloved local historian Elizabeth Yourtee Anderson. Discover the story of Catoctin Furnace, which for more than 130 years helped define the industry, history and culture of western Maryland.

Author : Maryland. Land Planning Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9O/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catoctin Furnace and the Manor Area of Cunningham Falls State Park written by Maryland. Land Planning Services and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Y. Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catoctin Furnace written by Elizabeth Y. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Bezis-Selfa
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722190
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forging America written by John Bezis-Selfa and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacks of stone preside over many bucolic and wooded landscapes in the mid-Atlantic states. Initially constructed more than two hundred years ago, they housed blast furnaces that converted rock and wood into the iron that enabled the United States to secure its national independence. By the eve of the Revolutionary War, furnaces and forges in the American colonies turned out one-seventh of the world's iron.Forging America illuminates the fate of labor in an era when industry, manhood, and independence began to take on new and highly charged meanings. John Bezís-Selfa argues that the iron industry, with its early concentrations of capital and labor, reveals the close links between industrial and political revolution. Through means ranging from religious exhortation to force, ironmasters encouraged or compelled workers—free, indentured, and enslaved—to adopt new work styles and standards of personal industry. Eighteenth-century revolutionary rhetoric hastened the demise of indentured servitude, however, and national independence reinforced the legal status of slavery and increasingly defined manual labor as "dependent" and racially coded. Bezís-Selfa highlights the importance of slave labor to early American industrial development. Research in documents from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries led Bezís-Selfa to accounts of the labor of African-Americans, indentured servants, new immigrants, and others. Their stories inform his highly readable narrative of more than two hundred years of American history.

Author : Edmund F. Wehrle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catoctin Mountain Park written by Edmund F. Wehrle and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lyon Gardiner Tyler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler written by Lyon Gardiner Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Orrison
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611212448
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Road North written by Robert Orrison and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2016-06-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the Gettysburg Civil War battlefields and their history, featuring lesser-known sites, side trips, and optional stops along the way. "I thought my men were invincible,” admitted Robert E. Lee. A string of battlefield victories through 1862 had culminated in the spring of 1863 with Lee’s greatest victory yet: the battle of Chancellorsville. Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment, confident in the abilities of his men, Lee decided to once more take the fight to the Yankees and launched this army on another invasion of the North. An appointment with destiny awaited in the little Pennsylvania college town of Gettysburg. Historian Dan Welch follows in the footsteps of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac as the two foes cat-and-mouse their way northward, ultimately clashing in the costliest battle in North American history. Based on the Gettysburg Civil War Trails, and packed with dozens of lesser-known sites related to the Gettysburg Campaign, The Last Road North: A Guide to the Gettysburg Campaign offers the ultimate Civil War road trip. “Orrison and Welch have created something different. Historians must search for innovative ways to engage the public on the battle’s relevance. This book offers a new experience for tourists—one that enriches their visit to the site of one of the most consequential battles in American history.” —Matt Arendt, TCU, for Gettysburg Magazine “Shows a deep knowledge of the subject and the style of writing is clear and easy to follow . . . buy this book!” —Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Catoctin Mountain Park: An Historic Resource Study, March 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elayne Bond Hyman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578617312
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Catoctin SlaveSpeak written by Elayne Bond Hyman and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catoctin SlaveSpeak is a collection of narrative poems in the voices of enslaved Africans, as well as their enslaved descendants, who were imported to work at the Catoctin Iron Furnace in Thurmont, Maryland. The poems are meant to be read aloud. They are based on available archeological and forensic anthropological evidence resulting from studies conducted on behalf of the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society. They also draw on general knowledge of the peculiar institution of slavery in the United States of America and throughout the African diaspora. They are the result of many hours of walking the earth, visiting the cemetery, studying the history, quiet listening, intuitive knowing, and creative writing by the author, Elayne Bond Hyman. They have been read on several different occasions to audiences in Maryland. The purpose of this publication is to broaden the reading and listening audience, thus giving voice to a heretofore voiceless and often ignored and uncredited segment of Maryland's historic population. Their availability in printed form will enrich the experience of visitors interested in learning the full story of the Catoctin Iron Furnace, beyond the archeological and historic interpretation available in the Museum of the Ironworker. This poetic, artistic, and emotional enrichment can foster a changed conversation about who the founding mothers and fathers of this nation really were.