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Phoenix Iron Works

Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, United States

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  • Phoenixville: Phoenix Iron Works
    In Phoenixville

    Other forges, including Lewis Wernwag’s Phoenix Iron Works (1812), which gave the borough its name, were established. In 1856 John Griffen, superintendent of the Phoenix Iron Works, turned out the first Griffen gun (a light cannon), later used by the Union army during the American Civil War.

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