This book traces the history and technology of several Irons works in pre-colonial Maryalnd, and pre-civil war southwestern Pennsylavania. I starting with the Colony of Maryland, in Anne Arrundel Maryland, with various immigrants from Wales who recognized iron ore, and knew how to process it. England was excited to get iron ore, but was not enthusiastic about the colonists making products from it locally. Whey, they might actuallu make cannon!Iron production was a profitable industry in the colonies, and one family in particular, the Snowdens, thrived in this endeavor.
