Money and concern flow freely for the restoration of 18th- century dwellings, but the remains of iron furnaces – whatever has not been sold for scrap and melted down – lie exposed to the ...

The last significant iron industry remnant on the property is an ashlar stone furnace stack built around 1881 ... They include two 20th century houses and five that date to either the 18th or 19th ...

lies the remnants of an iron forge called Catoctin Furnace founded in the late 18th century, an important site for understanding the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in early U.S. history.