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Speedwell Forge Mansion, also known as Speedwell Forge Homestead, is a historic home located at Elizabeth Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The ironmaster's mansion was built about 1760, and i
SPEEDWELL FORGE MANSION, LANCASTER COUNTY, PA
Robert Coleman was an American industrialist and politician who became Pennsylvania's first millionaire.
Speedwell Forge
…pig iron. Peter Grubb's sons, Curtis and Peter Jr., operated the ironworks after 1765 and Peter Jr., who ran the Hopewell Forges on Hammer Creek, hired Robert Coleman. Around 1735, John Jacob Huber, a German immigrant, set up a tavern on Newport Road, which ran from Lancaster, Pennsylvania to the port at Newport…
Anne Old Coleman by Jacob Eichholtz, 1815
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