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Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument

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large stone structure, 40 feet (12 m) tall and 30 feet (9.1 m) per side at the base, gradually sloping to 20 feet (6.1 m) at the top. It is set near the road, which runs at a high elevation above a stone retaining wall. About 100 yards (91 m) upriver is the dam, a stone structure with a
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The Beckley Furnace stands in what is now a rural area of central North Canaan, on the south side of Lower Road just west of its junction with Furnace Hill Road. The site spans the Blackberry River, with the main blast furnace and its developed features on the north bank. The main furnace is a
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providing access to a turbine chamber. Further downstream are the remnants of two more dams and furnaces, and there are large piles of slag mounded on the south side of the river. No longer extant are wood-frame buildings that would have been needed to support the operations of the furnace.
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by John Adam Beckley in 1847 and continued in operation until 1919. It was the second of three working blast furnaces built at the site; a fourth furnace was under construction in the early years of the 20th century but was never put in operation. The works successfully adapted to changing
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conditions, but was unable to compete on scale, and closed in the early 1920s. The stack was restored by the state in 1999. The dam built on the Blackberry River to provide power for the furnace and other industrial operations was repaired by the state in 2010.
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The state park offers picnicking and pond fishing. Tours of the furnace are offered periodically by Friends of Beckley Furnace.
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is a state-owned historic site preserving a 19th-century iron-making blast furnace on the north bank of the
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Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument (the United States)
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Map showing the location of Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument
Map showing the location of Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument
North Canaan, Connecticut
United States
42°0′39″N 73°17′34″W / 42.01083°N 73.29278°W / 42.01083; -73.29278
Connecticut state park
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
78002847
Blackberry River
town
North Canaan
Connecticut
state park
National Register of Historic Places
penstock
pig iron
National Register of Historic Places listings in Litchfield County, Connecticut
"Appendix A: List of State Parks and Forests"


"Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument"



"Beckley Furnace"
accompanying four photos from 1976

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