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The Swatara Furnace [7] [8] and ironmaster's mansion, the first two of the structures to be erected along Mill Creek and which now make up part of the Swatara Furnace Historic District, were built circa 1830, creating an "iron plantation," which was typical of the furnace-ironmaster home complexes erected across eastern and central Pennsylvania during the early to mid-nineteenth century.
Business & Industry, Furnaces, Iron Cornwall Iron Furnace: June 1, 2005: Rts. 322 & 419, near Quentin, W of Cornwall ... Swatara Gap: March 1, 1947: PA 72, 2 miles N ...
Cornwall Iron Furnace: November 13, 1966 ... Roughly bounded by PA 117, Pinch Rd., ... Appalachian Trail over Swatara Creek in Swatara State Park
A bridge from a hill led to the top of the furnace. Men dumped wheelbarrow loads of charcoal, limestone and iron ore into the top. The furnace produced pig iron and also did some casting of products. From 1837 to 1848 the furnace produced over 22,000 tons of iron. The metal was sent to the Swatara railroad station for transport. [3] [30]
1853 Central Iron Works established in Harrisburg. 1854 Newspaper Pennsylvania Patriot established; Harrisburg YMCA established at the Market Square Church (formerly English Presbyterian Congregation). Pennsylvania RR from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh is finished. 1857 Swatara (McCormack) Furnace built in South Hanover township nearby.
Owned in the 1760s by Barnabus Hughes and his sons, Samuel and Daniel, Mt. Aetna Furnace was one of four furnaces built by that family in Washington County, and Franklin County, Pa. — an ...
The Pine Grove Furnace facilities were identified as "Pine Grove Iron-Works" by 1782 ("Mr. Eger's iron-works" in 1783), and in addition to water raceways and charcoal hearths (traces of which are still visible), support facilities were built near the works, e.g., the 1829 L-shaped iron master mansion (named "office" in 1872). [13]
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