TN -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 381.8 -- Napier Mine:
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- NT3818_170606_01.JPG: Napier Mine
Just a few feet to your left is the open pit mine which provided most of the ore for the nearby iron making operations.
John Catron
(ca 1786-1865)
The principal promoter of activities here in the 1820s and 1820, catering later became an associate justice of the US Supreme Court. The mind took its name from patrons successors - the Napiers.
Napier mine in 1924, after mining operations had ceased.
Mining at Napier:
The shallow nature of the deposits allowed comparatively simple mining operations here. The rich ore yielded over 50 percent iron.
Miners, using pickaxes, secured the ore.
Mule drawn wagons transported the ore out of the pits.
Two men, one right-handed, the other left-handed, used 26 pound sledgehammers to break up the large pieces.
Washing remove dirt, sand, gravel and rock from the or so that it could be smelted.
- NT3818_170606_08.JPG: Original deed to the "ore bank" granted in 1826
- NT3818_170606_10.JPG: Mining at Napier:
The shallow nature of the deposits allowed comparatively simple mining operations here. The rich ore yielded over 50 percent iron.
Miners, using pickaxes, secured the ore.
Mule drawn wagons transported the ore out of the pits.
Two men, one right-handed, the other left-handed, used 26 pound sledgehammers to break up the large pieces.
Washing remove dirt, sand, gravel and rock from the or so that it could be smelted.
- NT3818_170606_12.JPG: Last Years at Napier
Operations continued in this area until 1923, when the furnace was "blown out" for the last time.
In 1890, the newly organized Napier ironworks assumed control. A railroad was built from Napier to Summertown to haul Coke to the company's new smelter. (Railroad grade as it looks today.)
Blast furnace of Napier Ironworks and stock of pig iron. When in full production, the company employed 60 men in the minds and 100 at the furnace
Nearby sites:
Visit the Metal Ford section of the old Natchez Trace. Take the road marked "Metal Ford Access Road".
Mill Race, Steele's Iron Works At Metal Ford are sites connected with early iron mining and other activities along the old Trace.
- NT3818_170606_19.JPG: Mill Race, Steele's Iron Works At Metal Ford are sites connected with early iron mining and other activities along the old Trace.
- Description of Subject Matter: Historic iron mine.
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