Logan: mills, forges and the iron trade

From the county histories, on Logan township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

The cloth was of Leona muslin, or lining that looked like it." The. mill was operated in the later years of the Revolution by lessees, one of whom, Peter Crum, was killed by the Indians while proceeding to his home in the present township of Logan. After 1790, Lazarus McLain was the owner of the property, but in 1795, Edward Bartholomew, of Philadelphia, became the owner, together with a large quantity of real . estate in this locality, and turned it over to his sonin-law, Greenberry P. Dorsey, who came on to live at ' this place. wee Ke Dorsey built a small forge near the mill, which was the beginning of the present Barree Iron-Works, the old mill having all this time been kept in successful operation. From the fact that the forge was situated in the old township of Barree, a name familiar to all new-comers, it received that title, and William B. Moore, "an Irishman, became the manager. Subsequently, since so many Moores were interested in the iron-works, he was distinguished from the rest by being called Barree Billy Moore. He was a very skillful workman, and the products of the forge soon became very popular with iron-workers.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 2,721,230 of the scanned text

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