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Alliance Furnace

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Built
  
1789

NRHP Reference #
  
91001130

Opened
  
1789

Added to NRHP
  
6 September 1991

Architectural style
  
Other, Iron furnace

Designated PHMC
  
November 22, 1946

Area
  
2 ha

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Location
  
Off Township 568 at Jacobs Creek, northeast of Perryopolis, Perry Township, Pennsylvania

MPS
  
Iron and Steel Resources of Pennsylvania MPS

Similar
  
Scranton Iron Furnaces, Aronimink Golf Club, Arlington Park, Allegheny Mountains, Gettysburg Battlefield

Alliance Furnace, also known as Jacob's Creek Furnace and Alliance Iron Works, is a historic iron furnace located at Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1789, and is a stone structure measuring 25 feet square and 15 feet high. Also on the property is a charcoal house measuring 40 feet by 25 feet by 20 feet. It was built as a blast furnace, placed in blast in 1792 and closed in 1802.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

References

Alliance Furnace Wikipedia