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Category : Iron industry and trade
Languages : en
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Hopewell Village National Historic Site, Pennsylvania. 1950-
Author: Hopewell Village
Author: Joseph E. WalkerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512808199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Before 1840 the American iron industry consisted in the main of small furnaces obliged by their need of the charcoal they used for fuel to locate in areas of heavy forest. Around these isolated furnaces grew communities of workers and their families, and of the farmers and service people who supplied their needs. In hundreds of forest clearings there could be found rural industrial settlements as distinctive in form and as important in product as the New England town or the Southern plantation. Hopewell Village tells the story of one such community, which, from 1771 to 1883, made iron in Southern Berks County, Pennsylvania. What little has been written about the iron villages has concentrated largely on the techniques of furnace operation. This book is concerned with the lives of the people of the iron plantations, from the wealthy ironmaster to the youngest indentured servant, and how they interacted with each other and with the outside world in work, religion, education, and play. Special attention has been given to the lives of minorities. While every part of the book is documented for the scholar-reader, the style of writing is plain enough to be read with meaning by those who have little background in the techniques either of the iron industry or historiography. Containing much original source material, tables, tabulations and numerous photographs, Hopewell Village should be of interest to students of industrial history, transportation, labor relations, and race relations, as well as to the general reader of American history.
The National Register of Historic Places
Author: Archeological Investigations of the Ironmaster's House, Hopewell Village National Historical Site, Pennsylvania
Author: Audrey R. MariePublisher:
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Category : Excavation
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Pennsylvania in Public Memory
Author: Carolyn KitchPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271056886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.
National Register of Historic Places
Author: Hopewell Furnace
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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The National Register of Historic Places, 1972
Author: Pioneers in Historical Archaeology
Author: Stanley SouthPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489909559
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
In this unique volume, twelve pioneers of historical archaeology offer reminiscences of the early part of their respective careers, circa 1920 to 1940. Each scholar had to overcome numerous biases held by historians and archaeologists-thus each chapter documents a step in the field's march from a marginal to a mainstream discipline. The book makes for facinating reading for archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians of science, and reminds us of the words of C.H. Fairbanks: ''what is past is prelude; study the past. ''
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