Thursday, March 31, 2011

Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site...

The Site as it looks now, reconstructed-click
..Massachusetts, back about sixteen hundred fifty-one,
when the Scots at the Battle of Worcester had not won;
8000 Scottish Prisoners of War all were deported to work indentured labor,
one of them Peter Grant, I'm told is my ancestor, he was a good neighbor.

So not only Africans came over this way,
that how things were back in the day;
at this site they worked cutting wood for the furnace to blast,
melting the ore so things could be cast.
The 'mill' that housed the forges-click
The furnace where the ore was melted down-click
A forge with bellows-there were several-click

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