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Henry William Stiegel Built Cannon Race and Furnaces
Historian recounts Henry William Stiegel, German ironmaster and founder of Elizabeth furnace, who built the Segloch Race to power his Elizabeth furnace and aided the Continental Army with cannons and munitions. The article details his rise, imprisonment for debt, and later life, including his grave at Brickerville and the preserved ruins along Furnace Run in Lancaster County.
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Henry William Stiegel
A. L. Campbell
Furnace Run
South Mountains
Lancaster
Lebanon
Pennsylvania
Coleman Heirs
Brickerville
Lancaster County
Elizabeth Furnace
Mure
Sylvania
Union
Stiegel
Penn
Thesylvania
Manheim
Elizabeth
Wilds of America
America
William Penn
New World
Germany
Philadelphia
Continental Army
Washington
New Jersey
New York
Delaware
Wahington
Trenton
Continental Congress
Furnac
Segloch Run
Black Oak Ridge
Rac
Cornwall
Robert Coleman
General Washington
Columbia