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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21FS_lucy-selina-furnace_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
You are standing near the site of the Lucy Selina Furnace, which supplied the Confederacy with pig iron for the production of cannons, munitions, and rails during the Civil War. In 1827, two Scots-Irishmen, Col. John Jordan and John Irvine, built …
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Australia Furnace, located just east of here, produced pig iron for the Tredegar Iron Works—"Ironmaker to the Confederacy"—during the Civil War. Ira and Edwin Jordan had begun constructing Australia Furnace in 1852; two years…
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When the first train arrived in Jackson's River Station July 10th, 1857, the western terminus of the Virginia Central consisted of little more than a refueling station for wood-burning steam engines and a station house for employees and passengers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZFZ_masonic-theatre_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
Low Moor Lodge No. 166, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, commissioned this Neo-Classical Revival-style opera house and lodge, erected in 1905 at a cost of about $40,000, The Masons held meetings on the third floor from 1906 to 1921. The thea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KWE_douthat-state-park_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
This park was developed by the National Park Service, Interior Department, through the Civilian Conservation Corps, in conjunction with the Virginia Conservation Commission. It covers nearly 4500 acres and was opened, June 15, 1936. It lies in a r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KWD_low-moor-iron-company-coke-ovens_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
Here stand the earliest coke ovens of the Low Moor Iron Company (organized 1873). The ovens converted coal to coke to fuel the company's blast furnace. The company built more than a hundred such ovens in 1881. By 1923 the Low Moor Iron Company emp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV7Y_lucy-selina-furnace_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
This furnace was built in 1827 by ironmasters John Jordan and John Irvine and was named for their wives. During the Civil War, iron produced here was used in the manufacture of Confederate munitions.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV7X_oakland-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
Jackson River Station Around 1857, the Virginia Central Railroad completed the Jackson River Depot and was the terminus of the railroad for trains and travelers heading west. Travelers had to continue their travels by horseback or stagecoach. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV7S_oakland-presbyterian-church_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
In continuous use as a place of worship except for a period between 1861 and 1865 when it was used as a hospital for a contingent of General T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson's troops encamped nearby. A monument in the churchyard marks the graves of man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV7R_oakland-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
William Henry Haynes, Sr. donated land for the Oakland Church and cemetery in 1811 to trustees James M. Montague, John P. Haynes, David Williamson and William H. Haynes, Jr. But the deed was not recorded until 1859. The original structure is said …
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