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Marker Details
- Title, side A
- The Hanging Rock Iron Region
- Title, side B
- The Blast Furnaces of Lawrence County
- Sponsors
- The Lawrence County Historical Society and The Ohio Historical Society
- Address
- Corner of 5th St and Park AvenueIronton, 45638
- Location
- Courthouse lawn - Location of Mt. Olive Furnace is 38.76207, -82.62985 - NW corner of Ohio 93 and Co
- Latitude
- 38.535480
- Longitude
- -82.683560
- Subjects
- Iron Industry, Ironton
Picture Details
- Title
- Drawing and Loading Coal at Vesuvius Furnace
- Caption
- Reproduction of a photograph depicting the wagons that were loaded with coal and drawn by oxen at Vesuvius Furnace in Lawrence County, Ohio. The original photograph was taken ca. 1895. Wilbur Stout, former chemist at the Columbus Iron and Steel Company and Ohio's state geologist, researched and collected photographs of blast furnaces in Ohio. He received this photograph from William Whitlach of Portsmouth, Ohio (AL01191).