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Thread #131004 Message #2952207
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
25-Jul-10 - 11:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Irish laborers in Franklin KY 1850
Subject: RE: BS: Irish laborers in Franklin KY 1850
Are you sure Franklin Furnace (later Franklin) in New Jersey, and Franklin, Ohio, are not meant? Both had large iron works in mid-19th C. Franklin, Kentucky, had reached the magnificant size of 828 in 1860.