Chapter XI
The Furnaces-- List of Furnaces
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
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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