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Jordan, John Box 6, Folder 127

This folder contains a copy of the magazine "The Iron Worker," dated August 1957, with a biographical piece on John Jordan. Also included is a photocopy of a November 7, 1873 Lexington Gazette article, giving the particulars of the blowing up of the Jordan Furnace in Amherst County, on October 28, 1873. Two men were killed, Henry Watkins and a black man, by the name of Tom Watson. An excerpt of this newspaper article, from the Virginia Cavalcade, Summer 1973, is also included in this folder.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library
  2. Rockbridge Historical Society Biographical Collection
  3. J

Jordan, John Box 5, Folder 12

File includes a copy of a magazine titled "The Iron Worker" as well as handwritten and typewritten copies of "A Sketch of Colonel John Jordan (1777-1854). Also includes a paper, "John Jordan, Virginia Builder," by Marshall Fishwick, and a photocopy of Summer 1973 Virginia Cavalcade article, "John Jordan: Builder and Entrepreneur," by L. Moody Simms, Jr.

  1. Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library
  2. Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection, 1609/2016
  3. Biography, 1700/2018

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