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Other notable buildings are the Second Empire-style George Taylor Mansion (c. 1880), a creamery building, a shed with a cupola, a log-and-stone furnace boarding house (c. 1800), a miller's house (c. 1820), a fire station (c. 1910), a Georgian-style ironmaster's mansion that is also known as Ege Mansion (c. 1807), and an Italianate-style furnace ...
Furnace, South Church and Freeman Streets and Mountain and East Meadow Avenues 40°20′34″N 76°08′26″W / 40.342778°N 76.140556°W / 40.342778; -76.140556 ( Robesonia Furnace Historic
Once famous for its iron furnaces (c. 1794–1927), the town was founded in 1855 by Henry P. Robeson, who had acquired existing iron manufacturing operations and founded the Robesonia Iron Company in 1845. The Robesonia Furnace Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [4]
Robeson replaced the charcoal-fired Reading Furnace with two (in 1848 and 1855) more modern and much larger Robesonia Anthracite Furnaces, while still demanding the right to access Cornwall iron ore – to supply one furnace, whichever one of the two was in operation, but not both at once. The combined capacity was many times greater than had ...
The furnaces are preserved in a park or museum, or as a site otherwise open to visitors, or intended to become such. While pre-20th-century blast furnaces already have a long history of monument preservation, the perception of 20th century mass production blast furnace installations as industrial heritage is a comparably new trend. For a long ...
Wharton Furnace: Wharton Furnace: September 6, 1991 : Wharton Furnace-Hull Road south of U.S. Route 40, southeast of Hopwood: Wharton Township: Traditional blast furnace was used in iron production from 1839 to 1850. 67: Whitsett Historic District
The Joanna Furnace Complex was an iron furnace that operated from 1792 (233 years ago) () to 1901 (124 years ago) () in Robeson Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Samuel Potts and Thomas Rutter III (grandson of Thomas Rutter ) and named for Potts's wife Joanna.
The works occupied the small area around the furnace stack a "quarter of a mile from the" quarry. [12] Notable geographic points near the works include the Mountain Creek distributary point for the furnace water race on the west, [13] the wash race distributary point from Tom's Run (north), [13] and the confluence of the furnace's water race with the creek (east).