Iron in the Shenandoah Valley: A castiron resurgence ...
Feb 09, 2020 · In the ia backcountry of the 1700s and early 1800s, iron manufacturers moved down the Shenandoah Valley from Pennsylvania and Maryland and set up early furnaces, such as Redwell Furnace and Isabella Furnace, both north of Luray, and Pine Forge, northeast of New Market, where they found the combination of good iron ore, limestone, water power, and .