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- IDNO:
- 030874
- Title:
- Old Iron Works Historic Marker near the Walnut Street Bridge, Morgantown, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- "Old Iron Works--Iron furnaces were busy in Monongalia County at early date. At Rock Forge, Samuel Hanway started work, 1798, and on Cheat River, Samuel Jackson built a furnace. The latter plant, under the Ellicotts, worked 1200 men."