Hetherington, Nelson - 1851

Chapter XI
The Furnaces-- List of Furnaces

1.  Clarion Furnace, cold blast, on the Clarion River, a little west of the mouth of Little Toby, built in 1829; thirty feet high by eight feet bosh; owners Henry Bear and Christian Myers, afterward Myers alone, who in 1851 assigned to Nelson Hetherington.  Produced about 1,300 tons a year.  Abandoned in 1852 on account of difficulty of reaching ore and financial considerations.
~ History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, 1887, Page 116