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Forty Eight Forge

Forty Eight Forge is a Tennessee historical marker in Wayne County.

Wayne Co, TN 15 (US 64), west of Forty-eight Creek

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About 1 mile southeast, a water-powered forge was built in 1846 on the banks of Forty-Eight Mile creek. It was owned by the Pointer Brothers, of Waynesboro, and its superintendent was Col. George W. Boyd, who had come here from Virginia in 1808. It used a large part of the output of Wayne Furnace, about 1 mile west.

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