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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 30, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 47.

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FIRST IRON CASTING.

WHAT is believed to be the first iron casting made in the territory now included in the United States is preserved in Lynn, Mass., if history is well authenticated, says the Scientific American. It is a cooking pot, weighing a little over two pounds. It was made about 1642, near Lynn, where a small blast furnace was made that year. This furnace used charcoal for fuel, with bog ore found in the meadow along the Saugus River, and oyster shells as flux. The furnace was operated until 1688, with some intermissions.