• Martha Furnace is an unincorporated community in Centre County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. A variant name is "Martha". Martha was founded about...
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  • Martha Furnace may refer to one of three iron furnaces and the communities surrounding them: Martha Furnace, Pennsylvania, a community in Centre County...
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  • Martha Furnace is an abandoned iron furnace in Burlington County, New Jersey, in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. It operated between 1793 and the mid-1840s...
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  • Martha Wilson (born 1947 in Newtown, Pennsylvania) is an American feminist performance artist and the founding director of Franklin Furnace Archive art...
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    moments in the early 20th century. Duquesne was home to the largest blast furnace in the world, named the "Dorothy Six". Bob Dylan's song Duquesne Whistle...
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  • grandson Thomas K. Bull was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. He lived near Warwick Furnace and purchased some land from the Warwick...
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    smelting began in 1827, when a puddling furnace in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania started using anthracite coal. Blast furnaces continued to use only charcoal until...
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  • Peter Grubb (mason) (category People from colonial Pennsylvania)
    Iron Mines and established Cornwall Iron Furnace, together one of the largest ironworks in Colonial Pennsylvania. The Cornwall Iron Mines are the largest...
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    Richards. Richards would eventually come into ownership of Weymouth Furnace and Martha Furnace in 1808, in addition to the Atsion Iron Works in 1822. His half...
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    Cadwalader Morris (category Continental Congressmen from Pennsylvania)
    North America. After the war he had an iron furnace for several years at Birdsboro, Berks County, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to mercantile pursuits...
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    David Thomas (industrialist) (category People from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)
    relocated to Pennsylvania, where the owners of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company in Lehigh County wanted Thomas to build a furnace for the production...
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    1824 until his death in 1842. He was also involved with Martha Furnace, and Weymouth Furnace. Pig iron Wrought iron Wedgewood, C.V. (1958). The King's...
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  • Curtis Grubb (category People from Cornwall, Pennsylvania)
    Curtis Grubb (c.1730—1789), Patriot and oldest son of Peter and Martha Bates Grubb, was a second-generation member of the Grubb Family Iron Dynasty along...
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    supplied iron furnaces scattered throughout the colonies in the 1700s. Bog iron ore common around the Chesapeake Bay fed numerous iron furnaces in Maryland...
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  • Samuel Meredith (American politician) (category Continental Congressmen from Pennsylvania)
    Mount in Wayne County, Pennsylvania on February 10, 1817, and was interred in a private cemetery. Eby, J. 2007. "Accokeek Furnace Business Ledger 1749-1760"...
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  • John Potts (Pennsylvanian) (category Merchants from colonial Pennsylvania)
    operating mines, furnaces and forges in Pennsylvania and Virginia. He served as Justice of the Peace, and was also a judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Common...
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    Yarnell Zion Axemann Colyer Graysdale Gum Stump Ingleby (ghost town) Martha Furnace Struble Tusseyville University Park Waddle Wingate The population ranking...
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    Katherine Oppenheimer (category University of Pennsylvania alumni)
    of blast furnace, and had gained employment with a steel company in Pittsburgh, and the family settled in the suburb of Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. Although...
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    Timothy Matlack (category Businesspeople from Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
    Catharine, and Martha.[citation needed] In 1760, Matlack opened a store called the Case Knife, and he and Owen Biddle purchased a steel furnace in Trenton...
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    career as an ironmaster in Pennsylvania, first at Warwick Furnace and Coventry Forge in Chester County and later at Durham Furnace in Bucks County. In 1767...
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    valley called McKee's Gap where an important iron smelting business (Martha Furnace) operated through the mid 19th century. The site of Roaring Spring is...
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  • self-portrait by The Beatles member John Lennon; a collection of 1940s furnace safety glasses; a menu from an 1876 dinner to honor Senator William Sharon;...
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    Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (category People from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania)
    American writer and historian. Wharton was born in Southampton Furnace, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1845. The daughter of Charles Wharton and Mary McLanahan...
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    Northampton and Lehigh Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Bethlehem had a total population...
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    frontiersman Miles Teller (born 1987), actor Martha Gibbons Thomas (1869–1942), first woman elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Chester...
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    Ner Middleswarth (category Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives)
    wealth, however, on a failed iron business called "Beaver Furnace" near Paxtonville, Pennsylvania. Middleswarth died at the age of 81 on June 2, 1865. He...
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    metallic state. Extracting usable metal from iron ores requires kilns or furnaces capable of reaching 1,500 °C (2,730 °F), about 500 °C (932 °F) higher than...
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    Lukens Steel Company (category Companies based in Chester County, Pennsylvania)
    Lukens Steel Company, located in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, is the oldest iron mill in commission within the United States. In 1995, it was one of the...
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    Mount Hope Estate (category Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania)
    19th century and included over 2,500 acres (1,000 ha), a charcoal iron furnace, a grist mill, housing for employees and tenants, plus supporting structures...
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    industry. The 2013 film Out of the Furnace is the story of two brothers living in a dying Appalachian Pennsylvania town, struggling for jobs, who get...
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