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it required two six-horse teams to draw this
product to the lake shore, over a wretched road. The Jackson forge was
finally abandoned in 1854, after having steadily lost money for its owners
and several successive lessees. The next forge to be built was that of the
Marquette Iron Company. Its building was the beginning of the city of
Marquette. In the winter of 1848 the late Robert J. Graveract, who had
acquired some iron lands and leases, visited Worcester, Mass., and in con-
nection with Mr. Edward Clark, enlisted Mr. Amos R. Harlow in the enter-
prise. Mr. Harlow, who was the owner of a machine shop, constructed and
purchased the necessary machinery for the projected works, and in the
spring of 1849 shipped the whole to Lake Superior,
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