The Oct. 16 event will feature hot iron with artist Brian Glaze operating a cupola furnace not unlike the historic operations of the grand furnaces themselves. The Anthracite Heritage Museum, ...

ROBESON TOWNSHIP – Taking a step back in time, a 9-year-old Shillington boy was mystified watching iron being heated in a 1,400-degree Fahrenheit furnace. “What is this black stuff?” Zachary Horning ...

SCRANTON – An industrial arts festival set for June 3 and 4 doesn’t just pay homage to an often overlooked historical site in Scranton. It also clarifies which industrial resource the city owes its ...

The Historical Society of Perry County and The Perry Historians are collaborating on Caroline Furnace preservation efforts. The furnace is the last remaining iron forge in the county. The historical ...

's historic iron furnace will receive a dedication later this year after a nearly finished recently. About nine months and $918,000 worth of work went into restoring and stabilizing the 1866 iron ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Not far from where flames flickered into the Saturday sky above the iconic Scranton Iron Furnaces, ...

EAST CANAAN — As I look at the Beckley Furnace, I can imagine an iron worker, covered in ashes and soot, grunting as he pushes a wheelbarrow full of slag over a bridge crossing the Blackberry River.

At its peak, the area between Marietta and Columbia was called "little Pittsburgh." Iron furnaces in mid-1800s churned out pig iron for a growing country. Anthracite coal came from the north by the ...

The Cornwall Iron Furnace lecture series will feature “The Kauffman Farm of Oley” in their next presentation on Aug. 13, with James A. Lewars, retired from a 42-year career working at state historic ...

Downtown Scranton will continue its tradition of celebrating autumn with the ninth annual Bonfire at the Iron Furnaces. The event, organized by the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, combines a ...

SCRANTON – The hottest ticket in town Saturday, melting and pouring iron at the Historic Iron Furnaces in South Side recalled the city’s birth. The Anthracite Heritage Museum, Lackawanna Historical ...

A seven-year effort to restore the Oswego Iron Furnace is receiving recognition by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The trust named the project one of its 22 National Preservation Honor ...