Lloyd, a lot of that fascinating history was made in your home county back in Pa. Yesterday, I posted this photo of Webster Furnace, not far from Rockland. (Rockland also has a very well preserved stone furnace near Freedom Falls) I shot my first buck with a flintlock off the top of this iron making cold blast furnace that was built in 1837-38. Years before your home county made history for becoming a center for petroleum production and the world's first drilled oil well, they were a top producer of iron in the state, with 25 of these furnaces built in relative wilderness. A couple years ago, a decision to hunt that area again led me to study the history of these stone furnaces, and the iron that was produced in them.
