Address Restricted, Reitz, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Somerset.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places January 10, 2008. NRIS 07001380.
Part of Iron and Steel Resources of Pennsylvania MPS (NRIS 64500532).
4 contributing sites. 2 contributing structures.Also known as:
Shade Furnace Archeological District, also known as Old Shade Furnace and Shade Forge, is a national historic district located at Shade Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing sites and two contributing objects. It encompasses the ruins of a countryside plantation style iron forge operation that operated from 1808 to 1858. It includes a stone blast furnace structure, a forge site, an ore pit site, a farmstead site, and a late 19th-century coal mine complex. The area includes a number of archaeological sites associated with the ruins of abandoned buildings.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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