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Cornwall was initially settled by Peter Grubb in 1734. [4] Peter was a Chester County stonemason who came to, what was then Lancaster County , in search of high quality stone for quarrying . First building his house and then a store, he discovered magnetite iron ore nearby and decided to test its quality, he found the ore to be exceedingly pure.
The furnace operated twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, except for when it was closed for repairs. Cornwall Iron Furnace was capable of producing 24 tons of iron a week. [citation needed] A large waterwheel powered the bellows. Carts loaded with charcoal passed to and fro between the coal barn and the furnace under a protective roof ...
This historic train station was designed by George Watson Hewitt and built in 1885 by the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad. It was then expanded in 1912. A two-story, brick, brownstone and terra cotta building designed in an eclectic Victorian style that reflects seventeenth-century Flemish, Romanesque, and Chateauesque influences, it features a broad porch roof with ornamental iron brackets. [2]
Location of Lebanon County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Location of Lebanon County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Lebanon County.. This is intended to be a complete list of the official state historical markers placed in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
Alden Villa, also known as Millwood, is a historic home located in Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.Representative of the Queen Anne and Shingle Style, it was designed by Stanford White, one of the leading architects of the Gilded Age.
Peter Grubb Sr. (1702–1754): Founded the Cornwall Ironworks when he discovered the vast iron ore fields at Cornwall, PA, about 1737 and built the Cornwall Furnace and Hopewell Forges by 1742. He leased the operations to Cury & Company until 1765 and removed to Wilmington, Delaware, where he bought and sold real estate and lived out his life.
The Cornwall Railroad acquired the Cornwall and Mount Hope Railroad in 1886, extending its line another 5 miles (8.0 km) to Mount Hope, Pennsylvania, where it interchanged with the Reading and Columbia Railroad. [5] Cornwall Railroad passenger trains used the Reading station in Lebanon until the end of passenger service on January 29, 1929.