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Nashville: Tennessee Department of Education, 1934.

Council, R. Bruce, Nicholas Honerkamp, and M. Elizabeth Will.  Industry and

Technology in Antebellum Tennessee: The Archaeology of Bluff Furnace. 

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

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W.W. Norton & Co., 1994.

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Beach: Downing Co., 1994.

Kemper, Jackson, III.  American Charcoal Making: In the Era of the Cold-blast

Furnace.  Washington D.C.: Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1941.

Lewis, W. David, and Walter Hugins.  Hopewell Furnace, Hopewell Village

National Historic Site, Pennsylvania.  Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, Division of Publications, 1983.

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To request a copy of Tennessee Iron Furnace Trail: A Guide to Resources on the Western Highland Rim or the accompanying video, contact the Center for Historic Preservation or the Buffalo Duck River and Five Rivers Resource Conservation and Development Councils.

Center for Historic Preservation
Box 80, MTSU
Murfreesboro, TN  31732
615/898-2947
histpres@mtsu.edu

Buffalo Duck River and Five Rivers Resource Conservation and Development Councils          
BDR 931/729-2686, Ext. 102
Five Rivers RC & D – 931/368-0252