Monkton Iron Company studies, ca. 1948-1989.

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Monkton Iron Company studies, ca. 1948-1989.

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Photocopies of an unpublished ms. by Adella Ingham titled "In the Days of the Monkton Iron Company, 1807-1830", along with extensive notes and a draft; student paper about the company by Peter Templeton titled "Energy, Enterprise, and the Sinews of Success" and notes for a talk in 1989 to the Bristol Historical Society by Bertha Hanson on the Monkton Iron Company.

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Monkton Iron Company (Vergennes, Vt.)

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Macdonough, Thomas, 1783-1825

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Commander of the American squadron on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812. From the description of Letter : U.S. Saratoga, Plattsburgh Bay, to Honble. Wm. Jones, Secretary of the Navy, 1814 Sept. 13. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33841454 American naval officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Benjamin Homans of the Navy Department in Washington, 1817 Oct. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270606715 From ...

Ingham, Ardella.

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Templeton, Peter H.

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Hanson, Bertha B. (Bertha Brown), 1917-1994.

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Monkton Iron Company, located at the falls in Vergennes, Vt., was founded in 1807 by a group of Boston merchants in response to the trade embargo on British goods imposed by the U.S. government. Iron ore for the operation came from Monkton and Bristol, Vt., and from the west side of Lake Champlain in New York State. The company's greatest success was during the War of 1812, when it made canonballs for the government and supplied the fleet of Thomas MacDonough. The depression that followed the wa...

Bristol Historical Society (Vt.)

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