Echoes of Pulaski- Bertha Zinc Traditional Cache
Echoes of Pulaski- Bertha Zinc
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Bertha Zinc Company – 1880, current site of the now demolished Magnox Corporation was Pulaski’s first industry, an amalgam of railroad, coal discovery, and the early iron industry.
The Bertha Mineral Company, formerly called the Bertha Zinc Company, through a Mr. Jones of Rhode Island bought the first lease of mineral land from Robert Calfee and began the construction of the Bertha furnace in 1879. The furnace was opened on February 13, 1880 and the first lot of zinc was turned out (400 lbs.) February 19, 1880. The spelter from this furnace ranked with the best made anywhere in the world. The Bertha Zinc Works brought skilled zinc smelters from Wales to Pulaski County. The zinc supply ran out in the years just prior to World War I, and it was Pulaski's largest industry when it closed in 1910. The Bertha Commissary building still stands at the corner of Commerce and State Streets. This is a film canister micro located on a small path just upstream from the deteriorating remains of the site of Bertha Zinc.
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