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The Robesonia Furnace Historic District, also known as the Reading Furnace and the Robesonia Iron Co. Ltd., is an historic, American iron plantation and national historic district that is located in Robesonia, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]
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
Location of Berks County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Berks County.. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Berks County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
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]
The Kissling Farm complex has seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and three contributing structures. They are a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay, vernacular Federal stone farmhouse with kitchen ell addition (1798, c. 1805); frame Pennsylvania bank barn on a limestone foundation (1890); 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone cabin (1793); four stone and frame outbuildings; and three structures.
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 ...
This is a list of European archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania.. Historic sites in the United States qualify to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places by passing one or more of four different criteria; Criterion D permits the inclusion of proven and potential archaeological sites. [1]
Robeson Elementary Center is in the township. [10] Twin Valley Middle School and Twin Valley High School are in Caernarvon Township, Berks County , and have Elverson postal addresses. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ]