List of Iron Products
Iron furnaces produced a wide variety of practical goods used in homes, farms, businesses, and industry. The lists below provide a glimpse of the iron products being made from the 1780s through the 1840s.
1780s:
- Hammers
- Anvils
- Pots
- Forge castings
1800s:
- Dutch ovens
- Hollow ware
- Pots
- Skillets
- Kettles
- Lids
- Flat irons
- Wheelbarrow wheels
- Sash weights
- Wagon boxes
- Mill screws
- Mill nuts
- Teakettles
- Irons
- Clock weights
- Forge castings
- Anvils
- Bake plates
1810s:
- Backs and jambs
- Clock weights
- Sash weights
- Street grates
- Stew pans
- Pots
- Mortars
- Hardware
- Waffle irons
- Hollow ware
- Fireplaces
- Mandrels
- Wagon irons
- Skillets
- Anvils
- Cambooses
- Moldboards
- Mill gudgeons
- Bake plates
1820s:
- Grindstone wheels
- Mortars and pestles
- Corn-plow machines
- Turning lathes
- Apple-drying kilns
- Sash weights
- Small wheels
- Tires
- Anvils
- Rolling mill castings
- Landsides
- Wing gudgeons
- Moldboards
- Plaster mills
1830s:
- Furnace grates
- Sash weights
- Plow castings
- Mold boards
- Oil troughs
- Anvils
- Threshing machines
- Griddles
- Shelling machines
- Wagon boxes
- Bake plates
- Landsides
- Sifter grates
1840s:
- Plow castings
- Iron blocks
- Plow handle pieces
- Beams
- Moldboards
- Landsides
Source: Walker, Joseph E. Hopewell Village: The Dynamics of a Nineteenth-Century Iron-Making Community. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966.)