The plant was on the Harrisburg-Reading mainline of the Reading Railway. [Pacific Southwest Railway Museum] The route through this area is now owned by Norfolk Southern.
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| Abandoned, Old or Interesting Places - Eastern PA posted Sheridan Furnaces, E.J. Lavino & Co. (Sheridan, Pa.) ca. 1932. View of a furnace built in 1862 by the Berkshire Iron Company. The furnace was converted to anthracite in 1867, and rebuilt at later dates. A second furnace was erected in 1874. Note the name of Lavino Furnace Co. on the locomotive. E.J. Lavino & Co. purchased the plant in 1916. Andrew Denelsbeck shared |
When E.J. Lavino bought this company, he converted it to manufacture ferromanganese, "which was about 85 percent manganese, 15 percent iron, and 5 percent carbon" [Steamtown]
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