Etna Furnace (Williamsburg, Pennsylvania)

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Etna Furnace
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Etna Furnace, 1988
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Location in Pennsylvania
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Location in United States
Nearest cityNorth of Williamsburg: roughly the area south and east of the bend of the Frankstown Branch Juniata River at Mount Etna, Catharine Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°31′34″N78°11′11″W / 40.52611°N 78.18639°W / 40.52611; -78.18639
Area161 acres (65 ha)
Built1805, 1832
Built byDavid Stewart, William Moore, John Canan
MPS Iron and Steel Resources of Pennsylvania MPS
NRHP reference No. 73001593, 91001145 (Boundary Increase) [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 11, 1973, September 6, 1991 (Boundary Increase)
Designated PHMCAugust 01, 1961 [2]

Etna Furnace, also known as Mount Etna Furnace, Aetna Furnace, and Aetna Iron Works, is a historic iron furnace complex and national historic district located at Catharine Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania. The district includes five contributing buildings, six contributing sites, and two contributing structures. It encompasses a community developed around an iron furnace starting in 1805. Included in the district is the four-sided stone furnace (1808), gristmill site (c. 1793), canal locks (c. 1832), site of lock keeper's house (c. 1832), aqueduct (c. 1832, rebuilt 1848), two small houses, the ruins of a charcoal house (1808), the foundation of a tally house, a blacksmith shop (c. 1831), bank barn (c. 1831), foundation of a boarding house, three family tenant houses, two iron master mansions (one destroyed), a store and paymaster's office (c. 1831), Methodist / Episcopal Church (1860), and cemetery with graves dating between 1832 and 1859. [3] [4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, with a boundary increase in 1991. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "PHMC Historical Markers". Historical Marker Database. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
  3. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 21, 2007. Retrieved November 5, 2011.Note: This includes Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks (May 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Etna Furnace" (PDF). Retrieved November 5, 2011.
  4. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 21, 2007. Retrieved November 5, 2011.Note: This includes Diane Reed and Chris Davis (March 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Etna Furnace (Boundary Increase)" (PDF). Retrieved November 5, 2011.

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