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Greenwood Furnace State Park is a 423-acre (171 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Jackson Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is near the historic iron making center of Greenwood Furnace. The park includes the ghost town of Greenwood that grew up around the ironworks, old roads and charcoal hearths.
Pennsylvania Route 305 in Greenwood Furnace State Park, east of McAlevys Fort 40°38′48″N 77°46′41″W / 40.646667°N 77.778056°W / 40.646667; -77.778056 ( Greenwood Jackson Township
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Centre Furnace is an iron furnace located in College Township, Centre County, in the Nittany Valley. It was the first charcoal iron furnace built west of the Susquehanna River in 1790-91 by war generals Samuel Miles and John Patton. The furnace was central to the development of the Nittany Valley. The furnace is the namesake of Centre County. [2]
This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC). The locations of the historical markers, as well as the latitude and longitude coordinates as provided by the PHMC's database, are included below when available.
Greenwood is a census-designated place [4] in Logan Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located near I-99 and is adjacent in the northeast to the city of Altoona . As of the 2010 census , the population was 2,458 residents.
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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