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6 unusual facts about Bloomery


Angelburg

Charcoal works were set up in the forests, and in the dales, bloomeries and smithies were busy smelting and working iron.

Cacapon Mountain

From its southern point, Cacapon Mountain rises from the landscape north of Bloomery in northeastern Hampshire County.

Good, West Virginia

Good is located on the Bloomery Pike (West Virginia Route 127) at I.L. Pugh Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 6/2) east of Bloomery and northwest of Winchester on the West Virginia/Virginia border.

Nowa SÅ‚upia

Every year, a festival called Dymarki Swietokrzyskie (Holy Cross Bloomeries) is organized here in mid-August, at an open air museum, Archeological - and Cultural Center.

Virginia State Route 127

Bloomery Pike continues west as WV 127, which passes through the historic community of Bloomery on its way to a junction with WV 29 at Forks of Cacapon.

West Virginia Route 127

From the bloomery furnace, WV 127 curves southeastward through the historic community of Bloomery where its sign reads "Bloomery: On the Road to Everywhere."


Stamp mill

In this woodcut image, there is the scene of three martinets and a waterwheel working wood and leather bellows of the Osmund bloomery furnace.


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