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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPDY_gerard-furnace_New-Concord-KY.html
(Front):Gerard FurnaceBuilt 2? miles east in 1854 by Browder, Kentucky and Co. Inside it was 24ft. high and 10½ ft. across at widest point, burning locally made charcoal fuel. Its air blast machinery was powered by steam. In 34 weeks of 1857,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPDW_fort-heiman_New-Concord-KY.html
Confederate fort erected in 1861. Federals occupied 1862. Seized by CSA Gen. Forrest in fall 1864. With field cannon his cavalrymen sank 2 Union river transports. Captured another and a gunboat, and commandeered them. Due east, this side of Kentuc…