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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIM_northern-water-snakes_Huntingdon-PA.html
Look carefully! From April to October, you might spot Pennsylvania's most common water snake. The non-venomous northern water snake likes to be close to water and good hiding places, like rocks, logs, and brush piles.
The northern water snake can…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIL_basic-ingredients_Huntingdon-PA.html
Before the age of railroads, the basic ingredients of iron production needed to be nearby. That explains why furnaces were built in rural settings surrounded by the necessary raw materials.
A source of iron ore was essential.
As the furnace fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIJ_the-workers-pyramid_Huntingdon-PA.html
It took hundreds of workers to produce iron, although only a few actually worked at the furnace. Fillers dumped carts of ore, charcoal and limestone into the seething tunnel head. The founder, assisted by a keeper, ordered ingredients, determined …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIH_from-mineral-to-metal_Huntingdon-PA.html
The ironmaking process was well-known and cold-blast furnaces built in 18th and 19th century America mimicked designs first used 400 years earlier. A thick stone furnace, shaped like a flat-topped pyramid, served as the place of transformation, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIG_an-undeniable-presence_Huntingdon-PA.html
The iron furnaces at Greenwood dominated this otherwise rural landscape. Beginning in 1834, and for most of 70 years, one or both of the two furnaces located here brightened the night with a fiery, multi-colored glow. For miles around, wood-choppe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIF_an-industry-in-ruins_Huntingdon-PA.html
By the 20th century, iron furnaces like these belonged to the past. The growing cost of transporting raw materials and finished products to and from rural furnaces reduced profits. The forest, the source of wood for charcoal fuel, had been deplete…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PID_the-best-iron_Huntingdon-PA.html
Railroads needed the high quality cast iron produced here. Although hard and brittle, it could withstand great weight. Shipped to Freedom Iron Works, the parent plant 12 miles away, Greenwood Works' cast iron became locomotive tires, railroad whee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PIC_greenwood-furnace_Huntingdon-PA.html
Replacing stack No. 1 erected 1833 about 22 feet north. Erected 1860 reconstructed 1935, dedicated Aug 8,1936 to Samuel T. Moore. Through whose efforts this stack was preserved
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHD_juniata-iron_Alexandria-PA.html
Along the streams of this region are ruins of many charcoal iron furnaces and forges built between 1790-1850. Juniata iron was the best in America. Its reign ended with the rise of coal and coke iron making.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHC_fort-standing-stone_Huntingdon-PA.html
Built to protect the settlers against Indian raids. In July, 1778, Continental troops and Militia were ordered here as part of plan of defense against Indian attacks. Old Fort stood 200 yds. south, at Stone Creek and the Juniata.