1873 Expansion

During the expansion of 1873, the Crown Point Iron Company built several new buildings below the upper dam. This bend in the creek contains the foundations of a carpentry shop, a furnace or foundry building, and a sawmill. These structures supported the iron business for only another 20 years. Depletion of the surrounding forests, competition from Minnesota's Mesabi Range, and a nation-wide depression led to the demise of the iron industry in Crown Point in 1892. Once the hills here resounded to crashing trip hammers, screaming sawmills, and the whistles of engines, but now only the splash of the stream is the same.

Crown Point, New York · United States