Elizabeth Yourtee Anderson: 1 book
Catoctin Furnace
Portrait of an Iron Making Village
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
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...
