Pioneer Iron Works by Mary Stetson Clarke

Pioneer Iron Works by Mary Stetson Clarke 

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chilton; First Edition (1968)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds

Not many years after the settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Saugus Iron Works was founded at the village of Hammersmith, now Saugus. It's lasting effect on tht growth and prosperity of the new colony was to be felt into the twentieth century.

In Pioneer Iron Works, Mary Stetson Clarke has recreated the Massachusetts village as it was in the mid 1600s, telling the manner in which the iron works were constructed and taking the reader on a tour of what was considered one of the wonders of the New World.

From Hammersmith, pots, kettles, weights, firebacks, shovels, crowbars, axes, and picks were shipped all over the colonies. The iron rods, sold in bundles, were heated, cut, and hammered into nails in hundreds of farmhouse kitchens.

Mrs. Clarke was a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, and inspired by local history to write several outstanding historical novels and works of nonfiction for young people. She was graduated from Boston University with a degree in English Literature, and worked in newspapers for many years. She died in November 1994 at the age of 82.