Pennsylvania's Abandoned Cement Kilns | Coplay Kilns

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00:02 - What are these Cement Kilns
01:03 - A Brief History of Cement
05:41 - The Erie Canal and Early American Cement
07:53 - David Oliver Saylor’s Pocket Full of Gold
09:29 - How Coplay Cement Changed the World
14:21 - The Death of the Father of American Cement
15:58 - The Coplay Cement Company’s Aalborg Kilns
19:32 - The Legacy of the Coplay Cement Kilns


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