Historic Markers - Cherokee Furnace Co., C. S. A. TX6625

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Cherokee Furnace Co., C. S. A. TX6625

Made crude kettles, plow tools on this site in 1864-65. Slaves fled from Louisiana's Red River Campaign battles were the workers. This county had 2 war plants working easily-mined, abundant local ore. Smelting fuel was charcoal made of timber growing nearby. A phase of manufacturing that made Texas "Storehouse of the Confederacy."

State Historical Survey Committee, 1965.

CR-2323, W. of FM-52, 6 miles S, of Rusk, Cherokee County Texas


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