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3 unusual facts about Warwick Furnace Farms


Hopewell Big Woods

Much of the forest was logged and used as charcoal to fuel local blast furnaces such as the Hopewell Furnace, Joanna Furnace, and the Warwick Furnace.

Warwick Furnace Farms

The furnace operated through the 1860s and supplied the iron used in the iron-clad ship the USS Monitor during the Civil War.

Several other sites listed by the National Register of Historic Places are within a couple of miles of the site, including Hockley Mill Farm, to the east on Warwick Furnace Road, Warrenpoint to the north, Warwick Mills to the west, and Brower's Bridge upstream (west) on the South Branch of French Creek.



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