Monitor Furnace, Coal Grove, Lawrence County, Ohio
Built: 1868
By: JOHN PETERS & OTHERS
Researched by Sharon M. Kouns and Martha J. Martin
Monitor Furnace – Upper Tp. – Coal Grove, Lawrence County, Ohio, was built in 1868 by John Peters & Others. John Peters laid out the town of Petersburg, four miles above Ironton, and built Monitor Furnace at that place, the town named for him.
In 1868 John Peters engaged in superintending the building of Monitor Furnace, owned by Isaac Peters, Joseph Bimpson, F. E. Duduit, William Simington, John Ballard, and John Peters.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 July 1868 – The Monitor Furnace, belonging to John Peters Co., located on the Ohio aide opposite Ashland, Ky, was burned on Friday. The fire was occasioned by the explosion of a tank filled with malted ore, causing a loss of $75,000.
The Jackson Standard, Jackson, Ohio 6 Aug. 1868 – The Ironton Journal says that Monitor Furnace has been burned at Petersburg, a short distance above Ironton. The loss is from $10,000 to $12,000, and no insurance. It was owned by John Peters & Co. They will rebuild at once. The accident was caused by the burden becoming impeded, then suddenly falling, lending oat quantity of cinder, melted iron, and gas. The engine and stack & are not injured.
Gallipolis Journal 4 Nov. 1869 – Monitor Furnace Company. The Monitor Furnace Company of Petersburg, Lawrence county’s certificate of incorporation was filed at the Secretary of State’s office yesterday. The purpose is to carry on a blast furnace business in all its branches. The capital stock is $106,750. The corporators are John Peters, N. Bimpson, and Isaac Peters. J; Ballard, F. E. Dudwit and W. A. Simonton.
Portsmouth Daily Times, 30 May 1874 – Petersburg – Just opposite Ashland is the deadness-looking part of Lawrence county, Ohio. I had the pleasure of riding through its streets in a lumbering old stagecoach with my friend, W. G. Bradford, of Ironton. They are Macadamized, and their mudholes, which are from one to three feet, are perfectly watertight. The road from this place to Ironton is badly cut up by the heavy ore wagons continually passing over it.
Petersburg looks like it belonged to a race of people that lived hundreds of years ago and never could conform to the appearance of our modern towns and villages. If I were to trade it for Catlettsburg, I wouldn’t ask anything to boot. Monitor Furnace is the only live thing within its border. This charcoal furnace blew in only three weeks before I was there. They get their coal in the hill at the foot of the furnace. The ore is readily obtained in the remediate vicinity,
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