Old Irontown
| Old Irontown | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 Old Irontown |
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| location | Iron County , Utah | ||
| Coordinates | 37 ° 36'0 " N , 113 ° 27'1" W | ||
| NRHP number | 71000843 | ||
| The NRHP added | May 14, 1971 | ||
Old Irontown is a ghost town in Iron County , Utah , and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
After 1852 and the takeover by the Deseret Iron Company , the Pioneer Iron Company relocated the coking plant and blast furnace from Cedar City , where production had started 3 years earlier under the leadership of Parley P. Pratt , one of the Twelve Apostles , 30 km west to Old Irontown . Production included household items such as nails, hooks and rods. Since the hard coal from nearby Coal Creek was of poor quality due to its high sulfur content , it was switched to charcoal . In 1884 the plant was abandoned due to legal disputes and moved to another location by the Iron Manufacturing Company of Utah . After the federal government began enforcing the Edmunds-Tucker Act against multiple marriage in Utah in 1884, many of the Mormon leaders had to go into hiding, which ended the development of a self -sufficient steel industry in Utah. A coke oven, a Göpelmühle of primitive design, which finely ground sand for use in the blast furnace, is well preserved to this day . The foundations, parts of a chimney and walls are still preserved from the foundry itself. Most of the site was fenced off for protection by the Sons of Utah Pioneers , an association dedicated to researching and preserving the history of Mormon pioneers . On May 14, 1971, Old Irontown was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a site .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Meredith Arms Bzdak: Old Irontown: Nomination Form . National Register Information System, National Park Service . January 13, 1971, accessed on May 26, 2015 (English, PDF 713 kB)
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed May 26, 2016