Thursday, July 14, 2022

Plumer, Samuel F. - 1844

Chapter XI
The Furnaces-- List of Furnaces
9.  Buchanan Furnace, cold blast, 1844, on the north bank of the Clarion River, opposite Callensburg; eight feet across bosh, thirty feet high; owned by Plumer, Crary & Co., S. F. Plumer, F. G. Crary, of Kittanning, and Arnold Plumer, of Franklin.  F. G. Crary became sole proprietor about 1857.  Averaged 1,200 tons a year; abandoned 1858; its timber was then exhausted.
~ History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, 1887, Page 117

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