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Janney Furnace Park

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Nearest city
  
Ohatchee, Alabama

NRHP Reference #
  
76000315

Area
  
1 ha

Added to NRHP
  
28 September 1976

Built
  
1863 (1863)

Opened
  
1863

Phone
  
+1 256-892-5198

Janney Furnace Park

Address
  
145 Janney Rd, Ohatchee, AL 36271, USA

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Janney Furnace Park is a park surrounding a fifty-foot tall stone furnace in Ohatchee, Alabama. The furnace was built in 1863 by Alfred Janney to produce pig iron due to the prevalence of iron ore in what is now the park. A July 1864 Union raid destroyed all but the stone chimney, which still remains. The furnace is now surrounded by the Calhoun County Confederate Memorial, built by Sons of Confederate Veterans in June 2003; and the 2009 Confederate and Native American Museum, which includes Civil War and Native American artifacts dating back to the Iron Age. The Confederate Memorial is the world's largest black granite confederate memorial. The furnace was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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Janney Furnace Park Wikipedia