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industry was most profitable between 1826 and 1855 with pig iron selling for as much as $55 per ton.
Virginia iron cost about $15 to $20 per ton to manufacture. The ability for Virginia producers to compete with England and Pennsylvania declined in the 1850s as bituminous and. anthracite coal became the (lower cost) energy source in those places. Transportation costs also were a factor as much of the Virginia iron was moved by wagons a method more expensive than that provided by that technological wonder, the ‘iron horse’.
The Civil War provided a
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