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 ...

All the workers were killed and the furnace destroyed ... in the country throughout the latter half of the 18th century.” The making of iron 200 years ago was not done in huge plants but ...

In Ironbridge, the community draws its name from the famous Iron Bridge erected in 1779 by Abraham Darby III. At the eastern end of Ironbridge stand the remains of two 18th century blast furnaces, the ...

9-11, the 46th annual event is held on the grounds of the historic Joanna Furnace Ironworks, an 18th- and 19th-century charcoal-fueled iron furnace and community in Robeson Township near Morgantown.

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.