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Daily dawn until dusk
Museum hours
Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. April through November and by appointment |
 Long Pond Ironworks was founded in 1766 by German ironmaster Peter
Hasenclever, with backing from British investors. He purchased the existing
Ringwood Ironworks and huge parcels of land, including the 55,000-acre
Long Pond tract, and imported more than 500 European workers and their
families. He was removed by his investors in 1769 and succeeded in 1771
by the Scots scientist and inventor Robert Erskine. With the outbreak of
the Revolution, Erskine took up the American cause, serving as Surveyor-
General to Washington, while his ironworkers cast and forged equipment
for the Continental Army and the Hudson River defenses.
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