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Mount Vernon Furnace

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Area
  
less than one acre

Architectural style
  
Other, Iron furnace

Opened
  
1795

Built
  
1795

NRHP Reference #
  
91001127

Added to NRHP
  
6 September 1991

Mount Vernon Furnace

Location
  
Entsey Road east of Pennsylvania Route 982, east of Scottdale, Bullskin Township, Pennsylvania

MPS
  
Iron and Steel Resources of Pennsylvania MPS

Mount Vernon Furnace, also known as Jacob's Creek Furnace and Alliance Iron Works, is a historic iron furnace located at Bullskin Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1795 and rebuilt in 1801. It is a stone structure measuring 24 feet square and 30 feet high. with two arches. It was built as a blast furnace and went out of blast in 1825.

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

References

Mount Vernon Furnace Wikipedia