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The Patuxent Iron Works was an ironworks along the Patuxent River in Maryland, United States. ==History== According to some sources it was founded before 1734 by Richard Snowden and family, on the site of their family's earlier iron works.〔Cook, William G., with edits by Mrs. Carol-jean Webster. 1976. Patuxent Iron Works, chapter 9 of ''Montpelier & the Snowden Family'', pp 295-302 〕〔 Other sources say it was in 1736 that Snowden, Joseph Cowman, and three other partners founded the Patuxent Iron Work Company. A 1753 letter by Charles Carroll of Annapolis noted that Snowden's forge was the only one in Maryland to have ore near navigable waters (i.e. the Patuxent River). According to tax records, the company had on average 45 enslaved workers from 1760 to 1780, who worked as foreman, founders, laborers and blacksmiths. Though the Snowdens were Quakers, they owned slaves for a century.〔 The iron works went to John, Thomas, and Samuel Snowden after Richard Snowden, Jr.'s death in 1763. "In 1831 the furnace and forge were sold by Thomas, Richard and Edward Snowden to Evan T. Ellicott and Company, who erected another furnace, 28 feet high and 8 feet wide at the boshes, and a puddling furnace and roughing mills or converting pig iron into bars for the Avalon works above Relay."〔 (The site of the Avalon Works is located in today's Patapsco Valley State Park).〔Park (2003). p. 61〕 The works were "dismantled and demolished" in 1856, "under the ownership of William Wilkins Glen, John Glenn, Jr., and Robert Lemmon."〔Park (2003). p. 63〕 The ruins were visible a long time afterward.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patuxent Iron Works」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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