User:Kittelendan/Catharine Furnace
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38°17′19″N 77°38′54″W Catharine Furnace was a 19th century iron smelting operation in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Furnace remnants are located on National Park Service land as part of the Chancellorsville Battlefield. Established in 1837, the operation was shut down in the 1840's but then restarted at the beginning of the American Civil War in 1861 to support the Confederacy. Pig iron smelted here was sent by wagon and rail to foundries such as the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia for manufacture of iron-based wartime products.
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