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Clifton Furnace

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
77001485

Opened
  
1846

Built
  
1846 (1846)

VLR #
  
003-0019

Added to NRHP
  
16 August 1977

Clifton Furnace

Location
  
VA 788, near Clifton Forge, Virginia

Architectural style
  
Cold Blast Charcoal Furnace

Clifton Furnace is a historic cold blast charcoal furnace located near Clifton Forge, Alleghany County, Virginia. It was built in 1846 of large, rough-hewn, rectangular stones. It measures 34 feet square at the base and the sides and face taper towards the top. The furnace went out of blast in 1854 and revamped in 1874. It was abandoned in 1877.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Clifton Furnace Wikipedia