Here William Kelly (1811-1888) discovered a steel making method, later known as the Besssemer process, which made it possible for civilization to pass from the Iron Age to the Steel Age. — — Map (db m169125) HM
Eddyville Furnace
Also, called Jim and I. A brick
blast furnace for smelting iron,
burning charcoal fuel, built 1832
by John and Samuel Stacker, and
Thomas Tennessee Watson. Later
owned by members of Cobb family,
then by William Kelly, . . . — — Map (db m169120) HM
One of many kettles made in this area by William Kelly, used for making sugar down South. In 1851, Kelly discovered process, known as Bessemer, for manufacture of steel. An Englishman, Bessemer, obtained patents on same process in England 1855 and . . . — — Map (db m123674) HM
New Union Forge
Stood ¼ mile SE. Built 1846-47 on site of older facilities by Wm. Kelly to process pig iron from nearby blast furnaces. Kettles to refine sugar, boiler-plate iron among products. Here Kelly began to develop the so-called . . . — — Map (db m123680) HM
Suwanee Furnace. Built by 1851, 200 yds. NW, by William Kelly, whose experiments there perfected his invention of the so-called Bessemer method of making steel, for which Kelly was granted the patent. The blast furnace was a brick stack 35 ft. . . . — — Map (db m123677) HM
