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Saugus The first successful iron works in the country established here Foundry erected 1643 Joseph Jenks built a forge here in 1647, and in 1652 made the dies for the first silver money coined in New England in 1654, he made the first fire engine in America Nutting House 1636 ? being restored & to be furnished & shown. Beams over fire place bored through with augur. Old tea chest pulled up from ocean 5 ft long boring with iron straps set with rosettes old lock with trefoil openwork carving on feet looked like Tudor roses. Iron works moved away because owners did not get on