NEB&W Guide to Port Henry, NY - The Slag Field

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• The impurities come off as molten slag, which float on top of the iron. The slag is tapped from the furnace and moved in special cars to be dumped while still melted into a waste area, know as a slag field. The slag field in Port Henry was south and east of the plant.
  • [Steam-era slag dumping, unknown site and photographer.]
  • [Modern day slag dumping, unknown site and photographer.]
  • [Port Henry aerial photo.]
  • [Our model, under construction.]
  The area that we are modeling has since been cleaned up,

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