Off PA 378 at Clarion R., Licking Township, Callensburg, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Clarion.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 06, 1991. NRIS 91001129.
Part of Iron and Steel Resources of Pennsylvania MPS (NRIS 64500532).
1 contributing structure.
The Buchanan Furnace is a historic iron furnace located in Licking Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1844, and is a cold blast charcoal furnace measuring 30 feet by 33 feet at the base and 33 feet tall. It had a maximum production of 1,200 tons per year and was abandoned in 1858 because of a lack of timber to be used as fuel.
Thirty-one iron furnaces were built in Clarion County, mostly from 1840-1850. They supplied the region as well as the Pittsburgh rolling mills.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992774