Scotia Iron Furnace Stack - Leasburg, Missouri
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BruceS
N 38° 02.147 W 091° 11.809
15S E 658244 N 4211319
Scotia Iron Furnace Stack is located in the Huzzah State Conservation Area southeast of Leasburg, Missouri
Waymark Code: WMRK9
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 09/27/2006
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The Scotia Iron Company of St. Louis built the furnace in 1870 and operated it until 1880. John G. Scott was president and general manager of the Scotia Iron Company. The furnace at Scotia was the fifth in Missouri built by Scott. The company began construction of the charcoal iron furnace in January 1870, shipping materials eighty miles by rail from St. Louis to Leasburg, then moving them with teams another seven miles south to the site. The furnace was 35 feet square at the base and the stack was 41 feet high. The bosh, or working opening at the base, was nine feet, four inches high. The furnace went into blast on 24 August 1870. Daily capacity of the furnace was twenty tons of pig iron; 2,300 tons were produced during the first month of operation. Scotia furnace operated intermittently until it was finally taken out of blast in February 1880. Most of the machinery at the site was shipped to the new furnace of the Nova Scotia Iron Company, a new firm that included some of the former principals of the Scotia Iron Company.
As can be seen in the pictures the furnace is now in a deteriorating state. The conservation department has fenced the furnace off with barbed wire.
Street address:
6.3 mi. SE of Leasburg on CR H
Leasburg, Missouri
County / Borough / Parish: Crawford
Year listed: 1969
Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event - Industry, Commerce
Periods of significance: 1850-1899
Historic function: Industry/Processing/Extraction
Current function: Landscape
Privately owned?: no
Primary Web Site: [Web Link]
Season start / Season finish: Not listed
Hours of operation: Not listed
Secondary Website 1: Not listed
Secondary Website 2: Not listed
National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed
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