140 Frank Carney 



of the coal measures. The second furnace, built at Niles, in 

 Trumbull County, began operations in 1809. Within a few years 

 numerous furnaces were erected in the ore-bearing regions. All 

 of these had a precarious existence; many of them were operated 

 intermittently, changing ownership frequenth\ The supply of 

 the ore sometimes gave out and sometimes it produced an inferior 

 iron. 



Not until 1826 was the iron reduction industrj^ in the state of 

 Ohio put on a firm basis. In this year the Union Furnace was 

 built in Lawrence County. The carbonate ores of the Hanging 

 Rock region have proved the most valuable of any we have. 

 This area shortly became the center of the iron mining and reduc- 

 tion industry in the state. The following table, prepared b}^ 

 Prof. N. W. Lord,i gives some statistics showing the develop- 

 ment of blast furnaces in Ohio: 



WHEN NAME AND BUILDERS OR ABAX- 



BUILT LOCATION OWNERS DONED 



LS08 Yellow Creek Furnace, Mahoning Co Clendenin, McKay and 



^Montgomery 



1809 Mosquito Creek Forge, Niles, Trumbull Co . James Heat on 1845 



ISU Brush Creek Furnace, Adams Co 1826 



1812 Mosquito CreekFurnace, Niles, Trumbull Co. James Heaton 1857 



1813 Yellow Creek Falls Furnace, Mahoning Co. Daniel Eaton and Sons . . .1833 



1816 Middlebury Furnace, Summit Co Aaron Norton 1842 



1816 Brush Creek Furnace, Adams Co 1826 



1816 Marble Furnace, Adams Co 1826 



1816 Mary Ann Furnace, Licking Co Owned by Dille B. ]\Ioore 



1816 Little Cuyahoga Forge Asaph Whittlesey 1850 



1824 Geauga Furnace, Painsville Used bog ore 



1825 Concord Furnace, Concord, Lake Co Burned down 



1825 Railroad Furnace, Perry, Cuyahoga Co Thorndyke and Drurv 1833 



1825 Arcole Furnace, Madison, Lake Co Root andWheeler (bog ore). 1851 



1826 Union Furnace, Lawrence Co Sparks, Means and Fair. .1854 



1823 Franklin Furnace, Franklin P.O., Scioto Co. James F. and Oran B. 



Gould 



1828 .Junior Furnace, Junior P.O., Scioto Co Gliddin, INIurfin and Co 



1830 Fairfield Furnace, Fairfield, Tuscarawas Co. Owned by Zoar Commu- 

 nity 



1830 Tuscarawas Furnace, Fairfield, Tuscarawas 



Co Christmas Hazlitt and Co. . 1846 



1832 Arcole Furnace, Madison, Lake Co WilkesonandCo.(bogore).1851 



^ Geological Survey oj Ohio, vol v, (1884), p. 450. I use the table only up to the 

 year 1840. 



