Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . - the Bed-ford Company, composed of Edward Ridgely, Thomas Crom-well, and George Ashman. It made from eight to ten tons ofpig iron a week. Lytle, in his History of Huntingdon County,says that it was built mostly of wood and was five feet wide atthe bosh and was either fifteen or seventeen feet high. A forgewas subsequently built on i-ittle Aughwick creek, four miles 355 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal southwest of the furnace. l)y the Bedford Com])any. which sup-plied the neighborhood with horseshoe iron, wagon tire, harrowteeth, et
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . - the Bed-ford Company, composed of Edward Ridgely, Thomas Crom-well, and George Ashman. It made from eight to ten tons ofpig iron a week. Lytle, in his History of Huntingdon County,says that it was built mostly of wood and was five feet wide atthe bosh and was either fifteen or seventeen feet high. A forgewas subsequently built on i-ittle Aughwick creek, four miles 355 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal southwest of the furnace. l)y the Bedford Com])any. which sup-plied the neighborhood with horseshoe iron, wagon tire, harrowteeth, etc. Large stoves and other utensils were cast at Bedfordfurnace. Jhe entire pro(hict of tlie furnace was converted intocastings and l)ar iron. At the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876. James Pollock Congressman, 1844; president judge EighthJudicial District. 1850; governor, 1855-1858;1861, director United States mint, Philadel-phia; naval officer of Philadelphia, 1880-1884 there was exhibited a stove-plate which was cast at this furnacein 1792. On the loth of September, 1793, Thomas Cromwell,for the company, advertised in the Pittsburgh Gazette castingsand bar iron for sale at Bedford furnace. The first Americanbar iron ever taken to Pittsburg is said to have been made atBedford forge. There was then no wagon road to the forge the pig iron of the furnace was hammered out into Natural Resources bars about six or eight feet l<»ng. and these were l)ent into theshape of the letter U and turned oxer the backs of horses and thustransported o^er tlie Allegiianies to Pittsl)urg. Bar iron and castings from Bedford furnace and other ironworks in the Juniata valle}- were taken down the Juniata river inarks, many of them descending to as low a point as Middleto
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