Founding Families · KinnelonThe Decker Family

Ironworkers and farmers of the Charlotteburg era — a family whose record still lives mostly in memory.

When these highlands ran on iron, the Deckers were among the families who worked it. Local history remembers them for a forge of their own in the Charlotteburg era — and their name stayed on the land as the iron faded and the valley turned to farming.

1760s–1800s

Local history

Iron in the hills

The first industry these highlands knew was iron, worked at the Charlotteburg furnace and the forges around it. Local history counts the Deckers among the families of that era, remembering them for running a forge of their own. When the iron trade faded in the early 1800s and the valley turned to farming, the Deckers stayed on, and the name is among those local accounts record on the land into the late 1800s.

Local history

The Decker forge comes down through local history rather than a surviving ledger; much of the family's story still lives in family records and memory. If you can document it, we'd be glad to add what the record confirms.

The family record

1760s–1800s — iron & farmsLocal history

The Decker family

  • ironworker
  • farmer

An old highlands family remembered for working iron — by local account, running one of the area's forges in the Charlotteburg era.

The Deckers are remembered in local history as one of the families who worked iron in these hills during the Charlotteburg era, running a forge of their own. They stayed on as the iron faded and the valley turned to farming, and the Decker name is among those local accounts record on the land into the late 1800s. Much of the family's story still lives in memory and family records rather than in the public archive — which is exactly where you can help.

Connections

  • Charlotteburg — Local history places a Decker forge among the ironworks of the Charlotteburg era.

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The Decker forge and farm are remembered more than they are documented. If you carry the name — or hold records, photographs, or a correction — share it. Family stories publish as local history; dated records publish as documented. Nothing publishes without review.

  • Forge or ironworking records
  • Decker family or farm photographs
  • Family lineage and descendants

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Sources

Compiled from publicly available sources; where accounts differ, the most widely documented version is used. Community corrections welcome.

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