Cornwall Iron Furnace

The following has been found in one of the boxes of large folders, in a yellow folder titled "Various Coleman and Early Cornwall photos from (Nettie) Kopp, personal secretary to Mrs. Margaret C. Freeman Buckingham. Apparently Kopp reproduced it from an earlier transcript. Interesting reading! Each page may be enlarged for ease of reading by clicking on it. If a printable PDF copy is needed, CLICK HERE.

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Henry C. Grittinger presented on at least two occasions to the Lebanon County Historical Society. He had served in 1882-87 as manager of the Burd Coleman furnaces, having managed the North Cornwall furnace in the 1870's. I have converted the old PDF versions of these papers from "archive.org" which can have some limitations in legibility.  They were OCR-converted to MS Word, edited as necessary and republished in PDF format.   In 1901 he reported on "Cornwall Furnace, and the Cornwall Ore Banks"  Click here to download "1901"     Michael Emery kindly assisted with providing the original photographs that were published in the original paper but suffered from too many generations of scanning and photocopying. In 1904 he reported on "The Iron Industries of Lebanon County"  Click here to download "1904"    A project is being considered to augment this paper with relevant diagrams of the various equipments described in his paper. For exa...