Hydeville is a rural section of the

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Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, England. It is located about south of Stoke-on-Trent, north of Wolverhampton, and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 71,673 at the 2021–2022 United Kingd ...

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, United States, located on Furnace Creek. Historically, it was also known as Haydenville.

History

The Lafayette

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, established in Hydeville in 1799 to process

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, is reputed to have been the first iron furnace in the state to cast stoves. It operated until 1840, when the local ore supply had been used up. In the 1890s, Hydeville was described as "consisting of a few houses about a woolen mill" with a population of about 130. Several of the houses in the village were tenement buildings containing several individual dwelling units. Wilson Woodworks, a producer of wood

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, was once located in Hydeville, but moved to the town of Windsor, about 30 miles to the southwest.

References

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