[TheForge] Re: Making Charcoal

[Mike Spencer]

> They are currently exploring what appears to be a late 15th/early
> 16th Century iron foundry, about 20 miles southwest of Boston.

Our Boston?  Leftpondian Boston?  Do you have a pointer to further
info about that?

The earliest North American ironworks I know about was Saugus, circa
1649.  AIUI, there's some evidence of an abortive & failed attempt in
Virginia a few years earlier.

So Henry VIII was still just the crown prince, Chris Columbus was
bumbling about in the Caribbean, the Massachusetts Bay Colony hadn't
been thought of yet and there was an ironworks in southeastern Mass?

Where do I learn more?

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