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| Mount Pleasant Furnace & Iron Works:
Originally built as Mt. Pleasant Furnace, later
renamed Corsica Furnace. Located on Little Mill Creek, near the Village of
Day, in Clarion Twp., Clarion Co., west of Corsica, in Union Twp., Jefferson
County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Date Built: ca. 1847 Date Out-of-Blast: ca.1858
Other names Mount Pleasant Furnace was known by: |
| Mount Pleasant Furnace & Iron Works:
A Stone Blast Furnace & Iron Works Owners: Corbet, Cyphert & Reynolds Company (ca.1849-1850) (G. W. Corbet, Solomon Cyphert, &George Reynolds) Gates & Company (ca.1850- ? ) John P. Brown (ca.1850) Brown, Phillips & Company (ca.1850- ? ) |
| Short History of Mt. Pleasant Furnace:
From the "Iron Manufacturer's Guide", 1859.
From "History of Clarion County" 1887. 5Mt. Pleasant Furnace. Later called Corsica. Height 30 feet, 8 foot bosh. Located in Clarion Township, northwest of Corsica and slightly north of the turnpike. Built by G.W. Corbet, Solomon Cyphert & George Reynolds. Average annual production about 500 tons from nearby ore. Sold to J.P. Brown in 1850. (Caldwell,1877: ) Corsica Furnace(Mt. Pleasant Furnace). Built in 1849 by G.W. Corbett, Solomon Cyphert and George Reynolds in Clarion Township, northwest of Corsica. (Sharp & Thomas,1966:32) |
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Mount Pleasant Furnace [Corsica Furnace], Clarion Township, Clarion Co. 1872 Map of Clarion Township, Clarion, showing the location of Corsica Furnace and the settlement around the furnace location. (from "Atlas of the County of Lawrence & The State of Pennsylvania," Published by G.M.Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, PA, ca.1872) |
| Location: The site of the Mount Pleasant Furnace [Corsica Furnace] can be reached from Corsica, Jefferson Co.. From Corsica go west approx. 1.75mi. on U.S. Rt.322. Turn north on T-560, this road could be one of two roads before you reach the interchange on I-80. The land and roads in this area have been much altered and changed due to strip mining operation and the construction of I-80. T-560 will run into T-566. Mount Pleasant Furnace was located about 100 feet north of a house and barn, which were on the right of this road. Mt. Pleasant Furnace [Corsica Furnace] was torn down during the summer or fall of 1961, by the strip mine operators, stripping the coal in this area.
The site of Mount Pleasant Furnace was visited in Oct., 1961,
by Merle Oberlin, Myron Sharp & William Thomas, they found that a strip
mine operation had pushed the stack over, although at that time it had not
been removed or covered up. A salamender was still there, on edge;
also a piece of pig iron composed of three pigs still together. These
ware near several long pieces of 12" or 14" cast iron pipe, which probably
were part of the blast piping. |
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| Bibliographical Sources: This section under construction. |
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