Cooper's Furnace - Iron Furnace Ruins on Waymarking.com

In 1844, Jacob Stroup built an iron works on Allatoona Creek. Around 1846, Jacob Stroup died, and Mark Anthony Cooper bought a half interest in the Etowah River iron works from Jacob’s son, Moses Stroup.

Cooper and Stroup expanded the Etowah operations and brought in a New York merchant, Leroy Wiley, as a one-third owner and as an open account supplier of wholesale goods. Stroup had insufficient credit to carry the debts of the expanding operation, so Stroup was pushed out and Cooper took over the Stroup one-third interest. Around 1852 Wiley called on Cooper to pay the growing debt of the Etowah operations. When Cooper could not pay, Wiley turned the Etowah operations over to Cooper and demanded full debt payment within 3 years. Cooper paid the debt by borrowing $100,000 from friends in the area. (From web page)

Cooper sold the iron manufacturing facilities to the Confederate States of America in 1863, and it was destroyed by Union Forces in 1864 during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign.

Like other area iron works, the Cooper facility was a cold-blast furnace utilizing iron ore, limestone and charcoal, all of which were available locally. Cooper’s Furnace operated an average of 45 weeks per year and produced some 20-30 tons of pig iron each week. The selling price of this iron ranged from $20 to $25 per ton. (From informational plaque at site.)

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