Thursday, July 7, 2022

Long, D. B. - 1835

Chapter XI
The Furnaces-- List of Furnaces
4.  Beaver Furnace, 1835, on Deer Creek, two miles from its mouth; steam and water; hot and cold blast, the last blast was hot; nine feet bosh by thirty-three feet high; owned by Long, Blackstone & Co.; output 1845, 1,200 tons; in 1852, 1,500; abandoned in 1854.

While in the legislature Mr. D. B. Long, one of the firm, procured the passage of an act, forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors within a radius of three miles from this furnace.
~ History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, 1887, Page 116

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