Hopewell Furnace National Park web site

Hopewell and Local History

• Hopewell Village: A Social and Economic History of an Iron-Making Community by Joseph E. Walker, University of Pennsylvania Press; 2nd edition (1967)
  This is the main historical background resource for Hopewell and provides a thorough timeline and information on daily life in the village.
  Available via Amazon.com.

Iron Industry

• Images of Iron Workers
  The Lyon, Shorb & Company online collection contains seventy-two cartes de viste— mass-produced portraits on cardboard backings—of company iron workers posed in stances from 1860 through 1867. The images show male workers dressed in both work and formal attire; these types of photographs were seldom taken during the period. Lyon, Shorb & Company was also known as the Sligo Iron Works of Pittsburgh.

Sources for information regarding the 1860 election:

• The Nov - Dec 2008 issue of the Civil War Historian contains an article entitled The Political Quadrille by Michael R. Potts that covers the 1860 Presidential election.
• The Secession Movement in the Middle Atlantic States by William C. Wright (Associated University Presses, Inc. Cranbury, NJ; 1973).
  The Pennsylvania chapter provides a lot of information about the political & economic "lay of the land" in Pennsylvania prior to the American Civil War. Seems Philadelphia has very strong business ties to the South and the city experienced economic stagnation and 20,000 residents were without work by December 1860.
• Pennsylvania's congressional election, October 9, 1860 results.
• A resource on the politcal climate, October 1860.
• Pennsylvania Governors.
• Resources about the current President, Pennsylvania James Buchanan.