Historic Ironmasters (Ironmaking) Conference

Hosted by the North Jersey Highlands Historical Society (NJHHS) & The Friends of Long Pond Ironworks (Folpi).

1. Trenton Iron Company & 19th Century Industrialization
2. Researching the Iron Industry 1700-1900
3. Maritime Affairs in the Highlands Iron Industry
4. "Forging Ahead” The Iron Industry of the Confederacy
5. Mastering Iron at the West Point Foundry
6. The Role of the National Register of Historical Places in Preserving Cultural Resources at Starling Forest
7. Charcoal Bottoms & Colliers’ Huts: What Remains?
8. Buying it and Building it: The Development of the Wawayanda Ironworks
9. Remains of the Sterling Mountain Railway
10. Thomas Edison’s Method of Concentrating Low Grade Magnetite

In 2005 this conference took place on Sat., Oct. 15 at the Lautenberg Visitor's Center in Sterling Forest State Park in New York State. In 2006, we will host an archaeological conference at the same place on Oct. 28. If you are interested in presenting a paper on history or archaeology, contact edlenik@hotmail.com.

For more information on the Highlands Conference Series see http://www.northjerseyhistory.org/special/hc/hc.htm.