Red River Iron Works

Creation Date

1805

Dissolution Date

c1865

Entity Type

Organization

Iron manufacturing plant in Powell County, Kentucky, and Estill County, Kentucky. Operated from 1805 to c1860. Included a post office from 1820 and gave its name to the area. Became the Red River Iron Manufacturing Company in 1865. Owner(s): Josiah A. Jackson and J. W. Jones in 1858.

Ron D. Bryant, "Powell County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 732.
David C. Elbon, “Clay City, Kentucky,” Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer, https://www.kyatlas.com/ky-clay-city.html (accessed July 31, 2020).
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 7th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 579.

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