Paul H. Tedesco | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Making Iron on the Bald Eagle: Roland Curtin's Ironworks and Workers' Community. By Gerald G. Eggert. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. xvi, 189 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-271-01946-8.)

In 1797, Roland Curtin, an Irish immigrant, entered the Bald Eagle Valley in central Pennsylvania. By 1810 he had started his own store, married the daughter of the local congressman, sired six sons, and established a charcoal iron-making plantation that became a major economic force in Centre County until it closed in 1922. Gerald G. Eggert, professor emeritus, Pennsylvania State University, has written an excellent study of the Eagle Ironworks, illustrating vividly that history at its best is local. 1

This is a Keystone Book, published by the Pennsylvania State University Press in association with the Centre County Historical Society. 2

A Keystone Book is so designated to distinguish it from a typical scholarly monograph that a university press publishes. It is a book intended to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania by educating them and others, in an entertaining way, about aspects of the history, culture, society, and environment of the state as part of the Middle Atlantic region.

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