Cranberry Iron Mine and Forge
Ironworks, Cranberry (Elk Park), North Carolina.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- Cranberry (Elk Park), North Carolina
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- Marker only
CRANBERRY IRON MINE AND FORGE
Forty to sixty men mined ore and forged bar iron here for the Confederacy, and ore from Cranberry supplied the Asheville armory. Once a month the bar iron went by wagon to Camp Vance near Morganton and on by train to Southern foundries.
CRANBERRY MINES
Iron ore deposits near here were mined from ca. 1826 until 1930. Supplied iron to the Confederacy.
Then
Forty to sixty men mined ore and forged bar iron for the Confederacy. Ore from Cranberry supplied the Asheville armory.
Once a month the bar iron went by wagon to Camp Vance near Morganton and on by train to Southern foundries.
Now
Marker only
A Civil War Trails marker stands on the grounds of the old Cranberry High School.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CSX, about 16 miles from the center of Cranberry (Elk Park).
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