Etna Furnace (Williamsburg, Pennsylvania)
Etna Furnace, also known as Mount Etna Furnace, Aetna Furnace, and Aetna Iron Works, is a historic iron furnace complex and national historic district located at Catharine Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania. The district includes five contributing buildings, six contributing sites, and two contributing structures. It encompasses a community developed around an iron furnace starting in 1805. Included in the district is the four-sided stone furnace (1808), gristmill site (c. 1793), canal locks (c. 1832), site of lock keeper's house (c. 1832), aqueduct (c. 1832, rebuilt 1848), two small houses, the ruins of a charcoal house (1808), the foundation of a tally house, a blacksmith shop (c. 1831), bank barn (c. 1831), foundation of a boarding house, three family tenant houses, two iron master mansions (one destroyed), a store and paymaster's office (c. 1831), Methodist / Episcopal Church (1860), and cemetery with graves dating between 1832 and 1859.
Etna Furnace | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
Pennsylvania state historical marker | |
Etna Furnace, 1988 | |
Location in Pennsylvania Location in United States | |
| Nearest city | North of Williamsburg: roughly the area south and east of the bend of the Frankstown Branch Juniata River at Mount Etna, Catharine Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°31′34″N 78°11′11″W |
| Area | 161 acres (65 ha) |
| Built | 1805, 1832 |
| Built by | David Stewart, William Moore, John Canan |
| MPS | Iron and Steel Resources of Pennsylvania MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001593, 91001145 (Boundary Increase) |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | April 11, 1973, September 6, 1991 (Boundary Increase) |
| Designated PHMC | August 01, 1961 |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, with a boundary increase in 1991.