Lansdowne Iron Works

Photos by Alan L Brown - May, 2009

Plaque Location

The County of Leeds and Grenville
The Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands
In Lyndhurst on Road 33 on a cairn on the north side of Lyndhurst Road at Cook Street just over the bridge.
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Latitude and Longitude Coordinates

44.549480 -76.125898

Plaque Text

While the existence of local ore was well known and various petitions had been made for the right to erect a foundry, it was not until 1801 that Wallis Sunderlin, a Vermont founderer, established the first iron works in Upper Canada at Furnace Falls. The works, which included both a furnace for the production of cast iron and a forge for the manufacture of wrought iron, were operated with limited success by Sunderlin and his associates until destroyed by fire in 1811. Attempts in 1815-16 to re-establish the works to supply the Kingston dockyard were ended with the agreement to limit armaments on the Great Lakes.

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