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Catoctin Furnace. / 39.57639°N 77.43389°W / 39.57639; -77.43389. Catoctin Furnace (also known as Catoctin Iron Furnace) is an historic iron forge located on Route 15 between Frederick and Thurmont in Catoctin Furnace, Maryland. Since it was closed in 1903, no forge has been at the site.
Codorus Forge and Furnace Historic District. / 40.05139°N 76.65722°W / 40.05139; -76.65722. Codorus Forge and Furnace Historic District, also known as Hellem (Hellam) Forge, is a historic iron forge and national historic district located at Hellam Township in York County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing buildings ...
Swatara Furnace. / 40.54306°N 76.49083°W / 40.54306; -76.49083. The Swatara Furnace is a historic iron furnace and 200-acre national historic district located along Mill Creek, a tributary of the Swatara Creek in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Washington Iron Furnace is an historic iron furnace, located in Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia. The granite furnace was built around 1770, and measures 30 feet high on its south face. It helped establish industry in the county, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Oregon Iron Company Furnace. / 45.4109833°N 122.6607000°W / 45.4109833; -122.6607000. The Oregon Iron Company Furnace, or Oswego Iron Furnace, is an iron furnace used by the Oregon Iron Company, in Lake Oswego, Oregon 's George Rogers Park, in the United States. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places [3 ...
The archaeological site includes the ruins of a worker's house, the stone furnace stack (c. 1791), bank iron furnace, forge foundations and race (c. 1804-1811), and remnants of dam breast. The furnace remained in blast until about 1822, and the Dale Forge was in operation until 1868. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Hearth (left) and trip hammer (centre) in a finery forge. In the back room (right) is a large pile of charcoal. A finery forge is a forge used to produce wrought iron from pig iron by decarburization in a process called "fining" which involved liquifying cast iron in a fining hearth and removing carbon from the molten cast iron through oxidation.
In 1793 the French Revolutionary Wars broke out and by 1796 the blast furnace was producing nearly a thousand tons of pig iron a year. By the second decade of the next century the company had expanded with another works at Codnor Park in Codnor , both works then having two blast furnaces, and output had risen to around 4,500 tons per year.