Early American iron and glass industries—British energy crisis relocation
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By 1615 England was facing an energy crisis. So here was the first energy crisis. A royal proclamation in that year lamented the disappearance of the kind of wood "which is not only great and large in height and bulk, but hath also that toughness and heart as it is not subject to rot or cleave, and therefore of excellent use for shipping." Again, military technology. 1615 — what colony had the Brits founded back around 1615? Plymouth Plantation here in New England, or Jamestown in Virginia. If you go to Jamestown today, they have a glass furnace shop. Jamestown had a glassmaking shop because they didn't have any trees in England anymore. We had lots of trees over here and could make charcoal over here. What did they have in New England? They had Saugus Iron Works.