Also in the area are the Inn at Iron Masters, a country inn in Lakeville, Conn.
The iron masters became revered craftsmen and were accorded a quasi-religious status.
These two books show how limited and one-sided that criticism is; they also show, more worryingly, how much was lost in the academic rush to be productive.Sparrow and Berlin were both children of privilege: Sparrow's forebears were iron masters, Berlin's timber merchants.
Parliamentary permission was acquired in 1830, despite opposition from the local canal companies of iron masters.
The mansion itself was originally constructed as a Federal-style home by the prominent family of iron masters; an 1895 remodeling transformed the structure with the addition of Victorian features.
The lessees might be iron-masters, who used the coal in their own operations, or colliery owners who sold the coal on to industrial or domestic customers.
Slaves were valuable property, and much harder and, thanks to the decline in supply from Africa, costlier to replace than, say, the Irish peasants that the iron-masters imported into south Wales in the 19th century.
He also had political differences, seeing himself as a benevolent feudal lord in South Wales, and perceiving the local iron-masters as arrogant, power-hungry individuals, abusing their economic power towards communities and workers.
