Etna Furnace (Williamsburg, Pennsylvania)

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Etna Furnace
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Pennsylvania state historical marker
Etna Furnace, 1988
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Nearest city	North of Williamsburg: roughly the area south and east of the bend of the Frankstown Branch Juniata River at Mount Etna, Catharine Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°31′34″N 78°11′11″W / 40.52611°N 78.18639°W / 40.52611; -78.18639Coordinates: 40°31′34″N 78°11′11″W / 40.52611°N 78.18639°W / 40.52611; -78.18639
Area	161 acres (65 ha)
Built	1805, 1832
MPS	Iron and Steel Resources of Pennsylvania MPS
NRHP Reference #	73001593, 91001145 (Boundary Increase)^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 11, 1973, September 6, 1991 (Boundary Increase)
Designated PHMC	August 01, 1961^[2]

Etna Furnace, also known as Mount Etna Furnace, Aetna Furnace, and Aetna Iron Works, is a historic iron furnace complex and national historic district located at Catharine Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania. The district includes five contributing buildings, six contributing sites, and two contributing structures. It encompasses a community developed around an iron furnace starting in 1805. Included in the district is the four-sided stone furnace (1808), gristmill site (c. 1793), canal locks (c. 1832), site of lock keeper's house (c. 1832), aqueduct (c. 1832, rebuilt 1848), two small houses, the ruins of a charcoal house (1808), the foundation of a tally house, a blacksmith shop (c. 1831), bank barn (c. 1831), foundation of a boarding house, three family tenant house, two iron master' mansions (one destroyed), a store and paymaster's office (c. 1831), Methodist / Episcopal Church (1860), and cemetery with graves dating between 1832 and 1859.^[3]^[4]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, with a boundary increase in 1991.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "PHMC Historical Markers". Historical Marker Database. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. Retrieved December 10, 2013.
↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Pennsylvania Register of Historic Sites and Landmarks (May 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Etna Furnace" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-05.
↑ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Diane Reed and Chris Davis (March 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Etna Furnace (Boundary Increase)" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-05.

External links

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-224, "Mount Etna Iron Works, East of U.S. Route 22 on T.R. 463, Williamsburg, Blair County, PA", 1 measured drawing, 60 data pages
HAER No. PA-224-A, "Mount Etna Iron Works, Etna Furnace", 5 photos, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page

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