Iron Ore Bank

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This photograph shows a group of workers mining iron ore from a hillside in Virginia. This would have been similar to the iron mining done in Kentucky. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Gerard Furnace

Gerard Furnace

By Katie Crawford-Lackey

Historical Marker #1373 in Calloway County commemorates Gerard Furnace, an important producer of pig iron in the far western part of Kentucky during the mid-nineteenth century. The production of pig iron was well suited for Kentucky's…