First Copper Smelters

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First Copper Smelters

TN 68, near bridge over Potato Creek, TN , USA

Tennessee State
Historical Marker

Near here, in 1854, the Tennessee Mining Company built two? furnaces to serve its own and other mines in the Copper Basin. Incompetent operation made them a failure. In 1855, Alexander H. Tripple built a furnace and calciner for the Eureka Mining Co., about 1 1/2 miles upstream. Their operation brought the Tennessee smelter back into production in 1856.

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