Low Moor Iron Company Coke Ovens

Low Moor Iron Company Coke Ovens is a Virginia historical marker in Alleghany County, dedicated 1991.

Alleghany County · dedicated 1991 · Winterbury Avenue, at Interstate 64 Exit 21

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Here stand the earliest coke ovens of the Low Moor Iron Company (organized 1873). The ovens converted coal into coke to fuel the company's blast furnace. The company built more than a hundred such ovens in 1881. By 1923 the Low Moor Iron Company employed 1,600 workers in Virginia and West Virginia, could produce 75 tons of foundry iron a day, and supported the company town of Low Moor. The last survivor among Alleghany County's once-thriving ironworks, the company closed in 1926.

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