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Eobert [sic] Thornburg and John Arthur built the Pine Grove furnace in 1770.: 91 ... December 3, 1783, Jacob Simon conveyed Pine Grove Furnace and land, together with another tract of 100 acres, to Michael Ege, Sr., Thomas and Joseph Thornburg, sons of Eobert Thorn- burg — Michael Ege one-half and the Thornburg brothers one- fourth each. ... As it is said Thornburg and Arthur built the furnace in 1770, in the interest of George Stevenson who was then the owner, it is most likely [sic] they built the fine old mansion still remaining.: 92 NOTE: The Central Pennsylvania Conservancy claims the mansion was built in 1829.
The food and clothes of the people were provided at the "store." (The wagons that took away iron, brought back these necessities.) Calico for their dresses and sun-bonnets, linsey-woolsey (a rough woolen material) for their petticoats; they spun and dyed the wool for their stockings which they knitted themselves. ... Coarse, heavy shoes came from the "store," also flour, "flitch" (salt pork), molasses and tobacco. Many of the women smoked.
{{citation}}: |last= has generic name (help); External link in |last=Cambrian ... Formation ... Mountain Creek limonite banks ... Pinegrove Furnace banks: 241 ... Red bank of the Thomas Iron Co. ... opened in 1874 ... Pine Grove No. 1 bank; ... 1/2 m. E. of the furnace ... Two large quarries of limestone lie 1000' S. E. of the village of Pine Grove: 245 ... Mountain Creek valley
{{cite report}}: External link in |quote=[in 1815, Michael Ege] owned the Carlisle works, the Pine Grove furnace, Holly furnace and Cumberland furnace. ... PETER, inherited from his father the Pine Grove iron works.
{{cite book}}: External link in |quote=At Henry Clay Station, on the Hunter's Run & Slate Belt Railway, ... The slate is brought to the works by railway from the slate quarry, about 3 miles southwest [sic] of the works; the soapstone is hauled by wagon from the quarry, a quarter of a mile from the works, and the clay is brought by rail from Laurel Station, 3 miles away. ... about 3 miles below Laurel ... At Crane's Siding, on the same railway, one mile above Hunter's Run Station, is a clay refining plant which has been in operation three years ... The clay is obtained at the long-since abandoned Crane iron ore mine ... obtained its clay from Upper Mill Station, on the Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railway
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) (similarly-worded Franklin Institute journal of 1899)The Pine Grove bank No. I has a large horse of white clay, which still (1886) occupies a place in the east workings(cites "report on the iron ore mines and limestone quarries of the Cumberland-Lebanon Valley, by E. B. d'Invilliers, in the An. Rept. Geol. Surv. of Pennsylvania")
At full capacity, an average furnace used 800 bushels of charcoal every 24 hours ... 240 or more acres of woodlandper year. p. 12: Figure 6-2 (Map). Invilliers, Edward V. d'[2]. 1886.
{{cite map}}: External link in |publisher=With the final purchase of the lands in Cumberland county at Pine Grove Furnace from the South Mountain Mining & Iron Company, which was consummated by deed bearing date the 12th day of September, 1913
Eobert [sic] Thornburg and John Arthur built the Pine Grove furnace in 1770.: 91 ... December 3, 1783, Jacob Simon conveyed Pine Grove Furnace and land, together with another tract of 100 acres, to Michael Ege, Sr., Thomas and Joseph Thornburg, sons of Eobert Thorn- burg — Michael Ege one-half and the Thornburg brothers one- fourth each. ... As it is said Thornburg and Arthur built the furnace in 1770, in the interest of George Stevenson who was then the owner, it is most likely [sic] they built the fine old mansion still remaining.: 92 NOTE: The Central Pennsylvania Conservancy claims the mansion was built in 1829.
It is reported that President Fuller, of the South Mountain Railroad, contemplates extending the road to the new ore banks about two miles west of Pine Grove Furnace in the near future. The new banks are very productive, the ore is of an excellent [sic] quality, and should the road be extended, they will be operated extensively.(from Echo newspaper) NOTE: Lesley (1892, p. 245) identifies the Wild Cat pits 2 1/2 miles to the west of Pine Grove contained too much phosphorus and were never developed.
{{cite web}}: External link in |title=The food and clothes of the people were provided at the "store." (The wagons that took away iron, brought back these necessities.) Calico for their dresses and sun-bonnets, linsey-woolsey (a rough woolen material) for their petticoats; they spun and dyed the wool for their stockings which they knitted themselves. ... Coarse, heavy shoes came from the "store," also flour, "flitch" (salt pork), molasses and tobacco. Many of the women smoked.
{{citation}}: |last= has generic name (help); External link in |last=It is reported that President Fuller, of the South Mountain Railroad, contemplates extending the road to the new ore banks about two miles west of Pine Grove Furnace in the near future. The new banks are very productive, the ore is of an excellent [sic] quality, and should the road be extended, they will be operated extensively.(from Echo newspaper) NOTE: Lesley (1892, p. 245) identifies the Wild Cat pits 2 1/2 miles to the west of Pine Grove contained too much phosphorus and were never developed.
[in 1815, Michael Ege] owned the Carlisle works, the Pine Grove furnace, Holly furnace and Cumberland furnace. ... PETER, inherited from his father the Pine Grove iron works.
{{cite book}}: External link in |quote=At full capacity, an average furnace used 800 bushels of charcoal every 24 hours ... 240 or more acres of woodlandper year. p. 12: Figure 6-2 (Map). Invilliers, Edward V. d'[2]. 1886.
{{cite map}}: External link in |publisher=Cambrian ... Formation ... Mountain Creek limonite banks ... Pinegrove Furnace banks: 241 ... Red bank of the Thomas Iron Co. ... opened in 1874 ... Pine Grove No. 1 bank; ... 1/2 m. E. of the furnace ... Two large quarries of limestone lie 1000' S. E. of the village of Pine Grove: 245 ... Mountain Creek valley
{{cite report}}: External link in |quote=At full capacity, an average furnace used 800 bushels of charcoal every 24 hours ... 240 or more acres of woodlandper year. p. 12: Figure 6-2 (Map). Invilliers, Edward V. d'[2]. 1886.
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