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Shade Furnace Archeological District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Shade Furnace, 1992
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Location	North of Rockingham above Dark Shade Creek, Shade Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°9′11.22″N 78°49′41.88″W / 40.1531167°N 78.8283000°W / 40.1531167; -78.8283000
Area	208 acres (84 ha)
Built by	George Reynolds, Peter Gerhart
Architectural style	19th-century stone blast furnace
MPS	Iron and Steel Resources of Pennsylvania MPS
NRHP reference No.	07001380
Added to NRHP	January 10, 2008

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 plantation 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.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Brian L. Fritz (March 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Shade Furnace Archeological District" (PDF). Retrieved December 8, 2011.

External links

• Shade Furnace, Our American Heritage website by Richard Parks
• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-374, "Shade Furnace, Reitz, Somerset County, PA", 5 photos, 3 data pages, 1 photo caption page

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