The Swatara Furnace is a historic iron furnace and 200-acre national historic district located along Mill Creek, a tributary of the Swatara Creek in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.[2][3][4][5]
The first charcoal furnace to be erected in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania,[6] the Swatara Furnace and its related buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^Wheary, Rob. "Effort Underway to Restore Swatara Furnace." Valley View, Pennsylvania: The Citizen-Standard, May 26, 2016.
^"Swatara Furnace," in "PENNSYLVANIA - Schuylkill County - Historic Districts." Washington, D.C.: National Register of Historic Places, retrieved online August 18, 2019.
^Biographical Annals of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Representative Citizens and of the Early Settled Families, pp. 37-38. Chicago, Illinois: J. H. Beers & Co., 1904.
^Swatara Furnace, in "Evening Chat." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Telegraph, March 11, 1914, p. 6.
^"The First Charcoal Furnace in Schuylkill County," in Schuylkill Heritage: A Newsletter of the Schuylkill County Historical Society, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 1-2. Pottsville, Pennsylvania: Schuylkill County Historical Society, March–April 2018.
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