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The furnace measures approximately 30 feet square at the base and 12 feet high. The ironmaster's house is a 2 1/2-story, stuccoed stone building, nine bays wide and one room deep. The Hellem (Hellam) Forge was first established in 1765. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Hellam Township is a township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,939 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Founded in 1739, it was the first township in the area, and it originally included the entirety of modern York and Adams counties.
The Chickies Formation is described as a light-gray to white, hard, massive quartzite and quartz schist with thin interbedded dark slate at the top. Included at the base is the Hellam Conglomerate Member.
Hellam Township was created and included most of what is now York, Adams and Cumberland counties. Hellam Township was named after Hallamshire, the township in England where Samuel Blunston, the magistrate of Lancaster County, was born. When Hallam Borough was incorporated in 1902, the town's name was spelled Hallam, the same as the English ...
Chickies Rock (1892) Part of an eastward extension of the Hellam Hills, Chickies Ridge has been separated from them by a water gap cut by the Susquehanna. The ridge is composed of uplifted Cambrian Chickies Formation, [1] which extends several miles east before merging into the surrounding uplands.
The forge processed pig iron produced at nearby Mary Ann Furnace, and had supplied cannon and shot to the Continental Army, probably under the ownership of James Smith, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. [15] Henry Grubb operated the forge until he hired John Shippen, who managed it from 1818 until 1825.
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).