From the Vergennes, Vermont town site.
I hadn't heard of these ironworks so did a bit more research on them.
The Monkton Iron Works operated from 1806-1816 and was started by a group of Boston businessmen. According to Wikipedia, at one time, it was the largest ironworks in the United States.
The success of the company coincided with the War of 1812. The Navy placed an order for 300 tons of cannon shot with them. Commodore Macdonough picked Vergennes to construct his fleet because of the ironworks, Juhazil Sherman's shipyard and the difficulty of approaching Vergennes from Lake Champlain.
Great pride came to Vergennes after Macdonough's victory on Lake Champlain at the Battle of Plattsburgh as well as General Samuel Strong's operations on land.
The company went out of business shortly after the war ended, sending the town into a depression.
Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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Saturday, January 18, 2014
Vergennes, Vermont, Involved in War of 1812
From the Jan. 3, 2014, Telegraph, AP "Vt. museum celebrating 200 years since War of 1812" by Wilson Ring, AP.
Two hundred years ago, the land around Otter Creek in what is now Vergennes, Vermont, had thousands of shipwrights from New York and elsewhere spending the winter and building an American fleet which would later in the year meet the British fleet on Lake Champlain in what is called the Battle of Plattsburgh.
In the winter of 1813-1814, they built this fleet seven miles upstream from Lake Champlain and just below the falls which helped power the Monkton Iron Works which provided metal fittings for the 26-gun USS Saratoga, 20-gun Eagle, 14-gun Ticonderoga and some smaller gunboats.
Meeting the British Next. --Brock-Perry
Two hundred years ago, the land around Otter Creek in what is now Vergennes, Vermont, had thousands of shipwrights from New York and elsewhere spending the winter and building an American fleet which would later in the year meet the British fleet on Lake Champlain in what is called the Battle of Plattsburgh.
In the winter of 1813-1814, they built this fleet seven miles upstream from Lake Champlain and just below the falls which helped power the Monkton Iron Works which provided metal fittings for the 26-gun USS Saratoga, 20-gun Eagle, 14-gun Ticonderoga and some smaller gunboats.
Meeting the British Next. --Brock-Perry
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