Boonton Iron Works
Boonton Iron Works Ruins, Boonton, NJ.
The Boonton Iron Works were founded about 1770 by Samuel Ogden who, with others in his family, purchased a 6-acre (24,000 m2) tract along the Rockaway River, near present-day Boonton, New Jersey. Here rolling and slitting mills were erected that engaged in the manufacture of nail rods and bar iron. With the construction of the Morris Canal in 1830, the was organized. This company built a new plant costing $283,000 and imported skilled mechanics from England. Under Fuller & Lord (1852–1876) the enterprise become an integrated industry with ore and timber reserves, canal boats, furnaces, mills and auxiliary plants. After 1881, the business slowly declined. The plant closed in 1911.
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- James Truslow Adams, Dictionary of American History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940).
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- Buildings and structures in Morris County, New Jersey
- Ironworks and steel mills in the United States
- Ruins in the United States
- Economic history of New Jersey
- Industrial buildings and structures in New Jersey
- Companies established in 1770
- 1770 establishments in New Jersey
- Pre-statehood history of New Jersey
- 1911 disestablishments in New Jersey