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Brady's Bend Iron Company Furnaces (also known as Brady's Bend Works) is a set of historic blast furnaces and rolling mill located in Brady's Bend Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. The furnaces are constructed of stone, with the first blown into production in 1840. A second furnace was added in 1845. They were hot blast furnaces powered by a 250-horsepower steam engine. In western Pennsylvania and northern Ohio the name Samuel Brady ranks with that of Daniel Boone in Kentucky and Kit Carson in the Far West.
Up the Allegheny River above Pittsburgh there are Brady's Bend and East Brady, in Portage County, northeastern Ohio, over toward the Pennsylvania line, there are Brady's Leap and Brady's Lake. So Captain Samuel Brady left his mark upon the map.

Samuel Brady came of fighting Irish stock. He was born in Shippensburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1756, during the French and Indian War.

His father, John Brady, was out upon the battle trail

In 1775 When he was nineteen, he joined the volunteers from Pennsylvania, to march for Boston. The War of the Revolution was just bursting into flame, and he intended to be in the thick of it.

The next year, 1776, his father and his younger brother, James, enlisted with the Pennsylvania troops, also to fight for liberty.

Then, in 1778 his brother James was killed by a band of Senecas under Chiefs Bald Eagle and Corn Planter.

He fought bravely, single-handedly, against them all. They tomahawked him five times in the head and scalped him, but he crawled to safety and even used a rifle.

That was the Brady way. He told the story, and died.
In the next year, 1779, old Captain John Brady, the father, was ambushed and murdered, by other Indians.

Captain Samuel Brady had vowed vengeance for his brother James; now he vowed vengeance also for his father; he swore never to suffer torture, but to kill right and left, and henceforth, as the chronicles say, he "made Indian killing his business."


PA 68, Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania