Beckley Blast Furnace - Est Canaan, CT
Posted by: KDubs
N 42° 00.650 W 073° 17.530
18T E 641416 N 4652389
Located in East Canaan, CT this was used to produce steel and iron
Waymark Code: WM7BWZ
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 10/02/2009
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The Beckley Blast Furnace was one of three blast furnaces in operation along Lower Road and the Blackberry River in East Canaan during the period 1832-1923. It was built in 1847 by John Adam Beckley, great-grandson of Esquire Samuel Forbes and grandson of John Adam, Jr., founders of the Forbes & Adam Iron Company. The Beckley Furnace (East Canaan #2) produced pig iron until the winter of 1918-19. Constructed of locally quarried marble, the furnace was originally thirty-two feet in height and thirty feet square at the base. Later the height was raised to forty feet making it one of the largest of forty-three blast furnaces in the Salisbury Iron District.
Beckley Furnace closed in the winter of 1919 at the conclusion of World War I. After it’s closing the buildings and stack slowly deteriorated. Then, in 1946, Civil Engineer Charles Rufus Harte developed a plan for state purchase and preservation of Beckley. In the process the Beckley Furnace was designated as Connecticut's sole official state Industrial Monument and in 1978 Beckley was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Type of Oven / Kiln: Iron
Status: Historical Site
Operating Dates: 1832-1923
Additional Coordinate: N 42° 00.650 W 073° 17.530
Website: [Web Link]
Additional Coordinate Description: Not listed
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