Pine Furnace, Pennsylvania | |
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Unincorporated community | |
  Pine Furnace | |
| Coordinates: 40°51′13″N79°25′45″W / 40.85361°N 79.42917°W Coordinates: 40°51′13″N79°25′45″W / 40.85361°N 79.42917°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Armstrong |
| Township | Valley |
| Elevation | 945 ft (288 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1204396 [1] |
Pine Furnace is an unincorporated community in Valley Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. [1]
In 1845 or 1846, James E. Brown and James Mosgrove erected Pine Creek Furnace in the east end of the part of Pine township north of Pine creek. It was a hotblast, steam charcoal furnace, ten feet across the bosh-stack and thirty-three feet high. [2] It made its first pig-metal in July, 1846. [2] It used charcoal until 1863, when the height of the stack was increased to forty feet and the fixtures were improved; and then commenced making iron with coke in 1865. [2] The capacity of the furnace was fifty-six tons of forge metal out of limestone ore from beds in the coal measures for miles around. [2]
In 1869 Brown & Mosgrove built a three-foot gauge railroad from the north of Pine creek to the furnace, a distance of four miles, for transporting ore and metal from and to the Allegheny Valley Railroad, which proved to be very successful. [2] It is designated on the township map the Pine Creek & Dayton Railroad, so named because the people of the borough of Dayton and of the valley of Pine creek, had evinced considerable interest in its extension to Dayton, but without having secured the requisite pecuniary means. [2] Subscriptions reaching $30,000, one-half the required amount, were made for this purpose in 1871. [2]
A post office called Pine Creek Furnace was established in 1872. It remained in operation until 1882. [3] Pine Creek Furnace P.O. appears in the 1876 Atlas of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. [4]
Armstrong County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 68,941. The county seat is Kittanning. The county was organized on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny, Westmoreland and Lycoming Counties. It was named in honor of John Armstrong, who represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress and served as a major general during the Revolutionary War.
Pine Township is a township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 412 at the 2010 census.
Wayne Township is a township in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,200 at the 2010 census.
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Caledonia State Park is a 1,125-acre (455 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Greene Township, Franklin County and Franklin Township, Adams County in southern Pennsylvania.
The Lehigh Crane Iron Company was a major ironmaking firm in the Lehigh Valley from its founding in 1839 until its sale in 1899. It was founded under the patronage of Josiah White and Erskine Hazard, and financed by their Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, which hoped to promote the then-novel technique of smelting iron ore with anthracite coal. This was an important cost and energy savings technique, since either an expensive charcoaling nor coke producing process and transport costs was totally eliminated so produced a great acceleration in the underpinnings of the American industrial revolution.
Bald Eagle State Park is a 5,900-acre (2,388 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Howard, Liberty, and Marion townships in Centre County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park includes the Foster Joseph Sayers Reservoir, formed by damming Bald Eagle Creek and other smaller streams and covering 1,730 acres (700 ha). Bald Eagle State Park is at the meeting point of two distinct geologic features. The Allegheny Plateau is to the north and the Ridge and Valley area of Pennsylvania is to the south. The park is in the Bald Eagle Valley off Pennsylvania Route 150 in Howard, between Milesburg and Lock Haven.
Big Spring State Forest Picnic Area is a 45-acre (18 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Toboyne Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is on Pennsylvania Route 274, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) southwest of New Germantown. Big Spring State Forest Picnic Area is a hiking and picnic area. A partially completed railroad tunnel in Conococheague Mountain is a feature of the park.
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Nittany Furnace, known earlier as Valentine Furnace, was a hot blast iron furnace located in Spring Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. Placed in operation in 1888 on the site of an older furnace, it was an important feature of Bellefonte economic life until it closed in 1911, no longer able to compete with more modern steel producers.
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The Pine Grove Iron Works was a southcentral Pennsylvania smelting facility during the Industrial Revolution. The works is notable for remaining structures that are historical visitor attractions of Pine Grove Furnace State Park, including the furnace stack of the Pine Grove Furnace. The site was listed on the National Register of Historical Places on April 13, 1977 for its significance in architecture and industry. It includes seven contributing buildings, two structures, fourteen sites, and two objects.
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Mahoning Furnace is an unincorporated community in Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States. The community is located on Pennsylvania Route 28 south-southwest of New Bethlehem near Mahoning creek.
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