{"id":1138,"date":"2019-06-16T01:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2019-06-16T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:19:38","slug":"saugus-iron-works-national-historic-site-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/16\/saugus-iron-works-national-historic-site-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Saugus Iron Works – National Historic Site, MA"},"content":{"rendered":"

In\u00a0 1961 the AISI (American Iron and Steel Institute) announced that it would no longer pay its annual maintenance subsidy, so in 1968, the “Saugus Iron Works” complex was added to the\u00a0National Park Service.<\/p>\n

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Saugus Iron Works is the site of the first “integrated” ironworks\u00a0in\u00a0North America, it operated between 1646 and 1670.<\/p>\n

In 1641\u00a0John Winthrop the Younger\u00a0 went to England\u00a0 to get\u00a0capital \u00a0from “The Company of Undertakers for the Iron Workes\u00a0 in New England” to found his enterprise.\u00a0In 1645\u00a0he founded\u00a0the first Iron works which was located in Braintree -Boston, however the area showed to be unsuccessful due to the lack of iron and the bad supply of water to power the machinery.<\/p>\n

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That same year (1645) Richard Leader, a merchant from\u00a0Salehurst\u00a0who was familiar with the iron making process, replaced John Winthrop as as the manager of the Iron Works here.\u00a0After arriving in Massachusetts\u00a0 Leader\u00a0 selected a new location in\u00a0Lynn, Massachusetts(now part of present-day Saugus) on the\u00a0Saugus River. The river was navigable for shallow draft vessels and could be dammed to power machinery. The surrounding forests could be used to make charcoal.<\/p>\n

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At the time, it was one of the most technologically advanced iron works in the world.\u00a0Skilled workers were brought over from England to ply their trade at the iron works.<\/p>\n

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The Boston architecture firm of\u00a0Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, Kehoe & Dean, which was responsible for the restoration of\u00a0Colonial Williamsburg, was hired to reconstruct the Iron Works.<\/p>\n

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