Advertisement showing the iron works located in Safe Harbor, Lancaster County on the Conestoga Navigation Company canal (formerly Conestoga Creek) near the Susquehanna River. View includes the blast furnace, foundry, and carpenter shop (identified below the image) in addition to smaller out buildings. Carriages, horse-drawn carts, workers, and a large pile of ore are visible on the property near the canal on which canal boats, including the "Ohio," travel. Also shows drivers following a horse-drawn cart loaded with ore traveling on the canal bank in the foreground. Constructed in 1846 after ore was discovered in the area, the iron works supplied "railroad iron." The partnership between the Reeves and the Abbotts lasted from 1849-1851., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 200, Bottom edge partially torn off.
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.8970.25]
