George Cresswell Furnace

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George Cresswell Furnace
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Location MO F, near Potosi, Missouri
Coordinates 38°2′27″N90°50′20″W / 38.04083°N 90.83889°W / 38.04083; -90.83889 Coordinates: 38°2′27″N90°50′20″W / 38.04083°N 90.83889°W / 38.04083; -90.83889
Area less than one acre
Built c. 1840 (1840)
Architectural style American Scotch hearth
NRHP reference # 88000613 [1]
Added to NRHP May 23, 1988

George Cresswell Furnace, also known as the George Cresswell Furnace Stack is a historic lead furnace located near Potosi, Washington County, Missouri. It was built about 1840, and is an open hearth furnace measuring about 100 feet square at its base and constructed of massive limestone blocks interlaced with mortar. The stack rises to a height of approximately 25 feet. [2] :3

Lead smelting

Plants for the production of lead are generally referred to as lead smelters. Primary lead production begins with sintering. Concentrated lead ore is fed into a sintering machine with iron, silica, limestone fluxes, coke, soda ash, pyrite, zinc, caustics or pollution control particulates. Smelting uses suitable reducing substances that will combine with those oxidizing elements to free the metal. Reduction is the final, high-temperature step in smelting. It is here that the oxide becomes the elemental metal. A reducing environment pulls the final oxygen atoms from the raw metal.

Potosi, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Potosi is a city in Washington County, Missouri, United States. Potosi is seventy-two miles southwest of St. Louis. The population was 2,660 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Washington County. The city was founded sometime between 1760 and 1780 as "Mine à Breton" or Mine au Breton, and later renamed by Moses Austin for the Bolivian silver-mining city of Potosí.

Washington County, Missouri County in the United States

Washington County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 25,195. The largest city and county seat is Potosi. The county was officially organized on August 21, 1813, and was named in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Hugh Davidson (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: George Cresswell Furnace" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-03-01. (includes 6 photographs from 1988)