 Some of these early furnaces and forges were fueled with nearby deposits of bituminous coal.Similar examples of early urban-industrial areas include Embree's Iron Works in East Tennessee (1808), the Red River iron region of Estill County, Kentucky (1806–8), and the Jackson Iron Works near Morgantown, West Virginia (1830).Wheeling, West Virginia was known as "Nail City" in the 1840s and 1850s.