Iron industry and trade
     Subject 
  
        Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
      
        Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Martha Furnace daybook/diary
     Collection 
  
    
      Accession: 0339
    
Abstract: 
	     
      Martha Furnace was an iron plantation built in 1793 by the Pennsylvania ironmaster Isaac Potts (1750-1803) on a branch of the Wading River two miles above Harrisville in eastern Burlington County, New Jersey. The volume is a combined daybook and diary, containing a comprehensive account of the operation of a Pine Barrens iron plantation during the early 1800s.
          Dates: 
        1808-1815
      
    
           
              