[Rockhounds] Bog Iron in the Northeast

[MEM]

For my research many years ago including interview with the Westpoint historian the source of ore came from at least 2 magnetite mines in the Bear Mountain area. One of the adits is right along side of a state route beside a state park lake at the edge of the Taconic(?) Range aka to the north off one of the SR 9 roads.  I'd have to pull out a map to be more Speciffic.  BTW there was also suposidlt a "tin" mine in Garrison, NY across from Westpoint but the adit is back filled and i couldn't locate any ore samples.Who knows how accurate these "historical" tradition's may be without, verifying through early geological reports.
Eman

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  On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:29 AM, gary brown<gbrown at catspaw-minerals.com> wrote:   Yeh... I grew up with that, too.  "Lost in the veil of time..."

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The story I always heard was that the iron used for the chain across the
Hudson came from a mine in Ringwood, NJ. There are links from that chain at
Ringwood Manor in New Jersey (and also at West Point (USMA).
Jim Daly

Quoting larryrush at att.net:

> Ron: Connecticut was once a major producer of bog iron, early in the 
> settlements. There is a story (I have not verified this) that bog iron 
> from the Salisbury District was used to create a chain to span the 
> Hudson River during the Revolutionary War.
> Many towns in CT contributed to bog iron production in the early 
> years, from the shoreline up to Mass. The ones around Litchfield 
> County were noted to have left heaps of bog ore raked out of swampy 
> areas when the smelters took over for iron making.
> I have not personally looked for any of these old heaps, but they 
> exist, if anecdotally, in the older towns there. It might be worth 
> checking with the local library historians in some of those NW  CT or 
> So. Mass. towns, and poking around where the producing sites were. 
> Maybe by digging in anomalous piles, you might uncover some, quietly
rusting away over the decades.
>
> Larry Rush
> Guilford, CT
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> Hello,
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> Would anyone know if there are any localities of bog iron that would 
> be open to collectors in the northeast United States?  Hoping that 
> there would be enough ore available on site to be able to smelt a 
> generous amount of bloom iron.
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> Ron
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