Cornwall Iron Furnace: Pennsylvania Trail of History Guide

Cornwall Iron Furnace

Susan Dieffenbach, 2003. This guidebook explains the technology of ironmaking and its importance as an industry in Pennsylvania, recounts the human story of Cornwall Iron Furnace from its eighteenth-century origins to its preservation as an historic site. It guides the reader on a tour of the furnace building and other remaining structures on the site, which was once the nucleus of a great industrial plantation. (Stackpole Books and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) paperback

This guidebook explains the technology of ironmaking and its importance as an industry in Pennsylvania, recounts the human story of Cornwall Iron Furnace from its eighteenth-century origins to its preservation as an historic site. It guides the reader on a tour of the furnace building and other remaining structures on the site, which was once the nucleus of a great industrial plantation.

A guide to the site that for a century and a half was the heart of a vast industrial plantation and is now a landmark of Pennsylvania's iron industry.