Red River Iron Works
1805 to 1865?
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.
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Red River Iron Works. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209755 (November 12, 2026).
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