- Owned By: Lemuel Pomeroy
- Managed By:
- Location: Copake Falls, NY, at the bottom of High Valley Road
- Build Year: 1845
- Stack:
- Production:
- Ore Source:
- Other Information: Cold Blast Ch Fn.
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Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: S. A. Munson
- Managed By:
- Location: 9 miles west of Utica, in Oneida County
- Build Year:
- Stack:
- Production:
- Ore Source: Lower Silurian deposits on small shells and oxide iron
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn.
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: Nichols & Co.
- Managed By: D.L. Merrit
- Location: Croton Landing on the North River, just below Abram Bailey's Croton upper rolling mill
- Build Year: July, 1857
- Stack:
- Production:
- Ore Source:
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn.
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: Fort Edward Blast Furnace Co., J.A. Griswold (of Troy), Treasurer
- Managed By: C.C. Alger, of Hudson - Agent
- For more information on C.C. Alger, see Stockbridge (Mass) Fn.
- Location: Fort Edward, NY, on the Hudson River
- Build Year: 1856
- Stack: 50 feet w/18-1/2 foot bosh
- Production:
- Ore Source: Sanford magnetic ore, mixed with fossil ore from Utica and some ore from Fort Anne
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn. The furnace was destroyed in 1856.
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: Robert P. and Peter P. Parrott
- Managed By: Peter P. Parrott
- Location: On the New York and Erie RR at Greenwood Station, Orange County, 44 miles from New York
- Build Year: #1 (Water Power) 1811, Enlarged in 1825.
- Build Year: #2 (Steam Power, Anthractie Coal Fn.) July 1, 1854
- Stack: #1 - 42 feet w/11 foot bosh
- Stack: #1 - 54 feet w/18 foot bosh
- Production: #1 - 1854 - 1,500 tons, #2 - 1855 - 5,000 tons
- Ore Source: Magnetic ore from the Monroe town mines 4 miles east and west of the fn
- Other Information:
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: Hudson Fn. Co., Sydney Seymour, Secretary & C.C. Alger, co-owner (also contractor and agent)
- Managed By:
- Location: At the south end of the Hudson, Columbia County, between the railroad and the river bank
- Build Year: 1850
- Stack: Two stacks, 45 feet high w/16 foot bosh
- Production: 1885 - 14,424 tons of iron
- Ore Source: 60% West Stockbridge brown hematite and 40% Fort Montgomery (or Old Forest of Dean) magnetic ore
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn. Blown together by one large beam engine, weighing 100,000 pounds and a 34 foot bed
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: Headley, Leffarts, Vanvoorhees & Co.
- Managed By: M. Brock
- Location: At Manhattanville, New York County, on the Hudson River Rr, six miles north of New York
- Build Year: 1854
- Stack: 40 feet w/11 foot bosh
- Production: 1855 - 4,000 tons
- Ore Source: Champlain magnetic and Hopewell and Amenia brown hematite ores
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn.
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: F. Bange
- Managed By: M.S. Brinton
- Location: 25 miles southwest of Kingston, on the Rondout River and the Delaware and Hudson Canal at Napanock in Ulster County
- Build Year:
- Stack: 30 feet w/9 foot bosh
- Production: 1856 - 39 weeks - 1,700 tons of iron
- Ore Source: Described as peculiar, solid, dark-grey homogeneous ore, probably of the Devonian age. Contained small geodes of sulphuret of iron and linticular fragments of metamorphic clay slate. The mine was located 1/3 of a mile south of the fn.
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn.
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: Warren Murdock & Others
- Managed By:
- Location: At Peekskill, in Westchester County, on the Hudson River RR, 45 miles from New York
- Build Year: 1854
- Stack: 44 feet high w/16 foot bosh
- Production: About 12 tons per day
- Ore Source:
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn.
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: Port Henry Fn Co. John H. Reed (of Boston), Treasurer
- Managed By: John H. Reed & W.T. Foote
- Location: On the western shore of Lake Champlain, in Essex County, Near Old Crown Point
- Build Year: #1 - Water (1847), #2 - Steam (1854)
- Stack: #1 - 42 feet w/13-1/2 foot bosh, #2 - 46 feet w/16 foot bosh
- Production: The #1 fn was little used until 1854, when it produced 3,553 tons. In 1856 the combined fn's produced 9,730 tons of iron. #2 produced 5,321 tons in 40 weeks of 1857.
- Ore Source: Magnetic ore, drawn from the Cheever mine, located 1-1/4 miles northwest of the fn. This mine was part of the Sanford bed of magnetic iron ore mines.
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn.
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: Poughkeepsie Iron Works Co. (Bech & Kuhnhardt)
- Managed By: A. Town
- Location: Half mile below Poughkeepsie, in Duchess County. Located on the Hudson River RR.
- Build Year: #1 - 1848, #2 - 1853
- Stack: #1 - 43 feet w/13-1/2 bosh, #2 - 46 feet w/18 foot bosh, later reduced in 15 feet
- Production: 1856 - #1 - 4,928, #2 - 5,480 tons
- Ore Source: Three-eights Cheever magnetic and five-eights Hopewell brown hematite, located 18 miles to the east-southeast. #2 used 1/2 and 1/4, and added one quarter Utica fossil
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn.
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By: Hiram Weed & Co.
- Managed By:
- Location: Corkenstown, Duchess County, near the Massachusetts line
- Build Year: 1854
- Stack: 32 feet w/9 foot bosh swelling to 10 feet at the cylinder
- Production:
- Ore Source: Megat ore banks are within stone's cast of the fn. Open quarry of loam, sand, blue clay and brown hematite ore balls, shells, pipes, and mammillary masses thrown down irregularly on one another, in variable quantities.
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn.
Per J.P. Lesley,
- Owned By:
- Managed By:
- Location: At Westport in Essex County, on the western shore of Lake Champlain.
- Build Year: 1845, rebuilt in 1856
- Stack: 42 feet w/13 foot bosh
- Production: 1856 - 4,200 tons of iron, 1857 - 31 weeks - 3,741 tons
- Ore Source:
- Other Information: Anthractie Coal Fn.