Rewrites...red ink.

"In 1896/97 J. B. & J. M. Cornell took over the iron foundry at Cold Spring, N. Y. on the Hudson River. The foundry was known as the West Point Foundry Works. These facilities are discussed in the magazine, The Successful American, Vol. III, No. 4, April 1901, p. 202, which also illustrates the extensive works at this location."

Unfortunately, for some reasons, I have blogged, (speculated) that the Chicago Iron and Bridge Company, still in business today, had been part of the West Point Foundry Historic District, in Cold Spring, NY. I was mistaken and those references have been removed, as historically the Cornell ownership was the "post-classic" period for the foundry, as described in the report:

"The West Point Foundry Site, Cold Spring, Putnam County, New York." Unpublished study, 1979. West Point Foundry Archives, Putnam History Museum, Cold Spring, NY. Edward S. Rutsch, JoAnn Cotz, and Brian H. Morell.

Since their study there have been a number of books in print and public archaeology about the foundry and iron production in New York. A new exhibit opens today at the Putnam History Museum.

West Point Foundry Trudie A. Grace and Mark Forlow - History - 2014 - 127 pages

http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/publications/record

Volume 8 "Iron in New York" Martin Pickands (editor) 2018