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- 1 2 waymarking.com: "Bristol Iron Works - Virginia Historical Markers"
- ↑ Brydon 1934
- ↑ Virginia Writers' Project (1 January 1972). Virginia: a guide to the Old Dominion. North American Book Dist LLC. pp. 345–. ISBN 978-0-403-02195-6 . Retrieved 16 October 2011.
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- Brydon, G. MacLaren (1934). "The Bristol Iron Works in King George County". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 42 (2). Virginia Historical Society: 97–102. JSTOR 4244575.