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Show Iron County Fio"eer Iron '..lor!cs Blast FurnaceS! t~, 400 ;\orth 100 East, Cedar Ci ty (s;{). In december, 1849, Parley P. Pratt led an ex?edi tion to southern tJtah to investigate the report from Jefferson Hunt that iron are in very pure form existed on the surface in great Quantities. \lith this report confirmed, B.irgham Your~ called a number of men, women and chi ldren to the Iron ?-fission to develop an iron manufacturing center to serve the needs of the pebpte of this area. This party consisted of 169 men, yomen, and children who left the Salt Lalce -Provo area about December 10, 1850, and arrived at the present sIte of ParOllan January 13, 1851. hOuses and planted their crops. Here they bui It their PU;X~x;d3.1tt::mIxx After these crops were harvested in the fall of 1851 a small party moved south in ~:ovember to begin work on the Iron 'iorks. Temporary homes were bui 1 t north and west of present-day Cedar City. Fi"elds were broken, irrigation systems developed and the Iron \"ort~s ?-!any hardships and delays were encountered" but on September 30, began. 1852, the first batch of iron \las Doured. This was the first time iron had been made in the United States west of the ~assissippt River. It was. significant also as the men doing it were transplanted staright from 'f:ngland where a new process had been developed to save the trees. techni('Jue of colcing coa 1 and using i t ~ ThIs was the in the manufacture of iron rather than charcoal, a process later to be adopted by the large iron X!lmN:i4fE'tNnx:t~x manufacturing centers . in the eastern Uni ted States. The present site is the site of the original blast fornace of the fron l-!lssion. measuring 80 x 100 feet, and 15 all that is left of the originatslte. |
