Shade Furnace Archaeological District
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.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Brian L. Fritz (March 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Shade Furnace Archeological District" (PDF). Retrieved December 8, 2011.
External links
- Shade Furnace, Our American Heritage website by Richard Parks
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-374, "Shade Furnace, Reitz, Somerset County, PA", 5 photos, 3 data pages, 1 photo caption page
