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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ECR_hasenclever-iron-trail_West-Milford-NJ.html
Welcome to the Hasenclever Iron Trail. This yellow blazed trail follows, for the most part, a road built over 230 years ago between the ironworks here at Long Pond and those at Ringwood Manor five miles away. Ironmaster Peter Hasenclever was runni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18U7_steam-powered-sawmill-remains_West-Milford-NJ.html
Circa early 1900s
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18U6_long-house-ruins_West-Milford-NJ.html
? ? ? Possible Bunkhouse for single male workers, circa mid 1800s.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18U4_water-wheel-pit_West-Milford-NJ.html
? ? ? Abandoned project to replace two lower water wheels with one water wheel twice their size.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18U2_water-power_West-Milford-NJ.html
? ? ? In 1882, these waterwheels, the last of many at Long Pond Ironworks, were constructed to harness the power of the Wanaque River, the only natural drainage from Long Pond (Greenwood Lake). The water was carried from the waterfall upriver to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TE_the-first-furnace_West-Milford-NJ.html
? ? ? The stone foundation before you is all that remains of the original iron furnace at Long Pond Ironworks. Built in 1766 by Peter Hasenclever, it was 25 feet tall and could produce 25 tons of iron a week. During the Revolutionary War, iron fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TD_the-ringwood-furnaces-at-hewitt_West-Milford-NJ.html
? ? ? The outbreak of the Civil War awakened the industrial power of the Northern States. The Cooper & Hewitt Iron Company built the "Gun Metal Furnace" on the Wanaque River in 1862 to supply iron for the manufacture of rifles and other ordnance …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TC_weighing-scale-remains_West-Milford-NJ.html
? ? ? Mainly for weighing incoming iron ore and outgoing iron pigs.
? ? ? Circa mid 1800s
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18TB_the-company-store_West-Milford-NJ.html
? ? ? The company store was a center of village life for over 160 years, containing not only a wide assortment of merchandise, but also the post office and company bookkeeper's office. ? ? ? Purchases at the store were deducted from workers' wage…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFA9_the-long-pond-ironworks_West-Milford-NJ.html
Founded in 1766 by Peter Hasenclever, the Long Pond Ironworks was run by a succession of famous ironmasters, including Robert Erskine, Martin J. Ryerson and Abraham S. Hewitt. The Long Pond furnace, forge and supporting village contributed to the …