Princess

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History

"Princess Furnace, D.S. Cook, Carolina, Botetourt county. Furnace at Wilton station, on the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad. One stack, 60 x 12½, built at Ashland, Boyd county, Kentucky, and first put in operation in May, 1877; removed to Virginia in 1883-4; three Whitwell fire-brick hot-blast stoves; closed top; fuel, coke; ores, brown hematite, red shale, and manganese, mined on the furnace property; annual capacity, 10,000 net tons. Furnace to be put in operation, November, 1884. T.D. Kauffelt, Manager." (Directory of the Iron and Steel Works of the United States and Canada 1884, 38 See References)

By 1908 the furnace had changed hands and increased production:
"Princess Furnace, Princess Furnace Company, Glen Wilton. One stack, 60 x 12½, built in 1883-4; one Whitwell and two 2-pass Foote stoves, each 60 x 15; fuel, New River Coke; ore, limonite mined on the property; product, soft, strong, and very fluid foundry pig iron; annual capacity, 18,000 tons. Brand, "Princess." William W. Hearne, President, Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia; James A. Green, Vice President, W.L. Turner, Secretary, and E. McFarland, Treasurer, Carlisle Building, Cincinnati; J.E. Johnson, Jr., General Manager, Glen Wilton, Va. Selling agents, Matthew Addy & Co., Cincinnati and branch houses. (Formerly operated by the Princess Iron Company; acquired by the Princess Furnace Company on May 1, 1906.)--Active in 1907." (Ibid 1908, 326)

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