Chapter XI
The Furnaces-- List of Furnaces
The Furnaces-- List of Furnaces
2. Shippenville Furnace, hot blast, at the junction of Deer and Paint Creeks, one mile southeast of Shippenville. Owned by Richard Shippen and Jacob Black; erected in 1832; managed by Robert Montgomery and David McKim: nine feet across the bosh by thirty-two feet high; production, 1845, about 1,200 tons; 1856, 1,500; abandoned in 1859.
In connection with Shippenville furnace there was a forge-- the only one in the county. It stood a mile further down Deer Creek, and made altogether fifty tons of bar iron.
~ History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, 1887, Page 116
In connection with Shippenville furnace there was a forge-- the only one in the county. It stood a mile further down Deer Creek, and made altogether fifty tons of bar iron.
~ History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, 1887, Page 116
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