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Roland Curtin enjoyed a remarkable thirty-four-year career in the iron industry, expanding a small iron forge into a large iron plantation. Born in Ireland, Curtin settled in the Bald Eagle Valley of the Juniata iron region in 1797, when the area was first settled. In 1810 he and a partner constructed Eagle Forge along Bald Eagle Creek. They bought pig iron from area furnaces to be hammered into wrought iron at the refinery forge.