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Iron Ridge is the community in Dodge County closest to the Butler Ridge Wind Farm, a windfarm that contains 36 turbines that are 300 feet wide and 260 feet tall. [10] It sits along the Niagara Escarpment , a ridge that originates in Ontario , runs through Wisconsin, and ends in Illinois . [ 11 ]
The B4058 road used to pass through the village but now by-passes it just to the north. The "iron" part of the toponym originates from the iron that used to be mined near the village. "Acton" is derived from the Old English for "farm (or village) [2] with oak trees". Still today there is an oak wood in the village beside the River Frome.
Hopewell Furnace stove, 10-plate cooking model, with a lower firebox and upper oven for baking. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Berks County, near Elverson, Pennsylvania, is an example of an American 19th century rural iron plantation, whose operations were based around a charcoal-fired cold-blast iron blast furnace.
In the 19th century, the village of Alveston was centred on Church Farm, on the lane leading from Rudgeway to Iron Acton. Some people consider the modern Alveston to be centred on the Ship Inn. The Ship Inn at Alveston is an old Coaching House which dates back to 1589. In the 19th century, the area around the Ship Inn was known as Alveston Green.
Nelson Holmes died in 1932 and passed the property on to his son Herman, a logger and contractor who served three terms as Iron County Sheriff. When Herman Holmes died in 1941, he passed the farm on to his brother-in-law, William Sackerson. The farm has been in the Holmes and Sackerson family for over 100 years. 38: House at 902 Selden Road
It consists of the remains of a mid-18th to late-19th century iron furnace site, and the nearby related village. Remnants of the ironworks include a dam and race, a possible wheel pit or building foundation, the possible location of a furnace stack, and a four-arch stone bridge built by John Weaver in 1832.
Butser Ancient Farm was founded in 1970 by the Council for British Archaeology: the driving force behind its foundation was the RCHME archaeologist Collin Bowen. [3] In 1972, they recruited experimental archaeologist Peter J. Reynolds (1939–2001) as director. [4]
Woodcutts Settlement is an archaeological site of the late Iron Age and Romano-British period on Cranborne Chase, England.It is situated about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the hamlet of Woodcutts, and about 1.75 miles (2.8 km) north-west of the village of Sixpenny Handley, in Dorset, near the boundary with Wiltshire.