Shade Furnace Archaeological District
Pennsylvania, US
Shade Furnace Archeological District, also known as Old Shade Furnace and Shade Forge, is a national historic district located at Shade Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing sites and two contributing objects. It encompasses the ruins of a countryside pla
ntation style iron forge operation that operated from 1808 to 1858. It includes a stone blast furnace structure, a forge site, an ore pit site, a farmstead site, and a late 19th-century coal mine complex. The area includes a number of archaeological sites associated with the ruins of abandoned buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
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- John P. Saylor Trail trail · 9 km away
- Trostletown Bridge monumenti · 12 km away
- Babcock Division monumenti · 12 km away
- University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown university · 13 km away
- Glessner Bridge monumenti · 16 km away
- Shaffer's Bridge monumenti · 18 km away