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HUGH MOORE PARK NOTES: The GeoPark is located on a portion of Hugh Moore Park. Ample parking and picnic tables are available, in addition to biking and hiking trails. You may also enjoy a mule-drawn canal boat ride (fee required) and explore the Emerick Technology Center (admission fee, included with canal boat ride). It’s a wonderful location for a family to spend a day. Hours: 8am to dusk Pets: permitted on the east side of the park, only; pets not permitted in the area near the canal boat, technology center or locktender's house, (the west side of the park).
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From about 1842 - 1896 The Glendon Iron Company manufactured "pig iron" on this island. Glendon was one of the largest and most productive iron furnaces in Pennsylvania. History say's that this was the largest manufacturing site for iron in the United States ,30% of the country's iron was produced here. For example, Furnace No. 1 went into production on Sept. 5, 1844. It produced more than 57 tons of pig iron a week and required about 117 tons of anthracite to do the job. At the time, this area contained pockets of iron ore and rich deposits of limestone for flux. These are key ingredients for the production of iron.
The coordinates take you to the molten iron ore rock that was left at the base of a Glendon Iron Company furnace that shut down in 1896. All of the structures from the Glendon Iron Company were demolished in the early Twentieth Century. Some scattered remains can be found throughout the park, however, this sole rock remains and is a reminder of a time when the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs worked hard producing pig iron.
Pig iron is an intermediate product of the iron industry. Crude iron as first obtained from a smelting furnace, in the form of oblong blocks. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically 3.8–4.7%, along with silica and other constituents of dross, which makes it very brittle, and not useful directly as a material except for limited applications. Pig iron is made by smelting iron ore into a transportable ingot of impure high carbon-content iron in a blast furnace as an ingredient for further processing steps. The traditional shape of the molds used for pig iron ingots was a branching structure formed in sand, with many individual ingots at right angles to a central channel or runner, resembling a litter of piglets being suckled by a sow. When the metal had cooled and hardened, the smaller ingots were simply broken from the runner, hence the name pig iron. As pig iron is intended for remelting, the uneven size of the ingots and the inclusion of small amounts of sand caused only insignificant problems considering the ease of casting and handling them.
Most of Earth's Iron Ore deposits were formed over 1.8 billion years ago from chemical reactions that combined iron and oxygen in marine and fresh waters. Two key minerals in these deposits are iron oxides: hematite (Fe2O3) with a reddish color and magnetite (Fe3O4) with a blackish color.
Using your magnet. Find part of the iron ore rock that it is attracted to.
1. How many different colors do you observe on the Rocks?
2. What color does the Magnet stick to?\
3.why do you think its that color ?
4. Pig iron has a very high carbon content, typically what Percent?
5.Feel the rocks and describe the texture.
6. What is pig Iron made From
7. What was Limestone used for ?
8. as you walk to the backside of the rocks what objects do you notice on the bottom ?
9. Nearby is an information Plaque name the 3 Ingredients needed to smelt Iron.
10.A new change to the guidelines allows me to require a photo. Take a picture of you or a personal item at the site. please post Pictures
