[Various (1967)] of millions of people living in the metropolitan regions of New York and New Jersey, it has been completely lost in the rush of civilization. The Tuxedo-Ringwood Canal was built around 1765 by Peter Hasenclever. Hasenclever, a German, headed a London syndicate which formed a corporation called the American Iron Company, which proposed to develop an iron empire in America. Hasenclever's accomplishments in America can be described as incredible. Within a year after coming to these shores he had brought over 535 fellow Germans. Under his direction they built forges, furnaces, dams, houses, stables, bridges, reservoirs, ponds, mills, and other buildings. He developed iron works at Ringwood, Charlotteburg, and Long Pond in New Jersey and at Haverstraw and Cortlandt in New York-truly an industrial enterprise of gigantic proportions eve n when measured by today's standards. The Ringwood Ironworks was the largest and the principal works of the American Iron Company. Hasenclever in his autobiography (Hasenclever, 1773:7) tells us that at this ironworks he built the following: 1 Furnace 25 Colliers houses 4 Forges, 11 fires 1 Sawmill 1 Stamping-mill