Overview
Sixteen years after the Puritans settled Boston, they built this impressive, large manufacturing complex. At the time there were only a dozen such high-tech plants in all of Europe. Skilled metallurgists John Turner and John Vinton were brought in to manage the fineries. Unskilled laborers cut wood for making charcoal, and quarrying the bog ore and flux.
Current evidence of the "Ironmaster's house" has determined that it was built by a man named Appleton in circa 1681 and that this was long after the iron works had ceased operation. This house, therefore, was not the Iron Master's house as originally portrayed. (Source: National Park Service, Saugus Iron Works.
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