1828 Carrick [Blast] Furnace near Metal, PA

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Tamara Bair Adams posted eight photos with the comment: "The Carrick Furnace in Metal , Pa. located along rt. 75 four miles south of Fannettsburg, Pa. was deeded to the Path Valley Historical Society in Feb. of 2020. The PVHS started in the Spring with removing years of overgrown brush and weeds, etc. the clean up is still ongoing. The Carrick Furnace is listed on the National Historic Registry of Historic places. The original Weimer blowing Engine and boilers are still intact .The Carrick Furnace is only 15 minutes off of the Pa. Turnpike Willow Hill exit, and 10 minutes, north of Rt. 30 on rt. 75 n."

[That recent cleanup explains why the satellite image shows just a bunch of trees.]

Tamara Bair Adams: Doug Plance The Mt. Pleasant Furnace was in Richmond Furnace, that’s the name of the Village where it is located, I think it might of been called Mt. Pleasant in the earlier days..I don’t know if their are any remains there or not, I could check into that....the photo’s I shared are the Carrick Furnace, which is only a few miles further North on the same road..a lot of people say the Carrick Furnace is at Richmond Furnace, I think just because they are so close, gets confusing...

James Torgeson shared

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[According to the plaque in photo 7, "The Peter L. Weimer blowing engine is the only one extant in Pa, and apparently the only one know to be in existence nationally."]

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[I think this was the boiler that supplied steam for the blowing engine.]

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Carrick Furnace is a historic iron furnace located at Metal Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The property includes the limestone furnace stack, a Peter L. Weimer blowing engine (1879), boilers for the steam engine, and the charging ramp, engine house, and cast house foundations. The furnace was built about 1828, and measures 30 feet square at the base and 30 feet high. Furnace operations were suspended in 1837, the property sold in 1843, then leased in 1850 to "Witherow and Walker." [PlaceAndSee]

The operations being suspended in 1837 is another reminder of the Panic of 1837.