{"id":3842,"date":"2012-02-16T18:50:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalheritage.org\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","slug":"iron-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2012\/02\/16\/iron-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Europeans introduced the important craft of iron making to Appalachia in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Iron ore was discovered all over the region.\u00a0 Large deposits were found in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Smaller ones were scattered in places like Cherokee, Ashe, and Avery Counties in Western North Carolina, where small-scale furnaces and bloomery forges supplied the demand generated by local blacksmiths.\u00a0 Small mountain bloomery forges used coal or charcoal to smelt the ore.\u00a0 The refined metal was then beaten by large hammers lifted and dropped by water wheels.\u00a0 Much of the iron produced in those small forges was cast iron that smiths beat into utensils and tools for household use.\u00a0 Some of it was cast into large blocks, or pigs, of iron for transport and resale to blacksmiths in other places.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IronMaking60Mx.mp3|titles=IronMaking60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europeans introduced the important craft of iron making to Appalachia in the 16th century.  Iron ore was discovered all over the region.  Large deposits were found in Pennsylvania.  Smaller ones were scattered in places like Cherokee. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[51,57,85,124,271,309,364],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-economy","tag-ashe-county","tag-avery-county","tag-blacksmith","tag-cherokee-county","tag-hanging-dog","tag-iron","tag-mining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8764,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions\/8764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}