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Rockwood iron furnace town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: furnace slag, crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1907 historic-map era

Postwar iron company town under Walden Ridge feeding Roane Iron furnaces from 1868; furnace ground and company-row dumps date to the iron decades.

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