Iron production began at Catoctin Furnace in 1776 and relied in part on enslaved labor before the industrial village expanded through the 19th century. The surviving furnace stack, historic village, trails and Museum of the Ironworker now interpret both the industry's technology and the lives of the people who worked there.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: dnr.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/western/CunninghamFalls/Catoctin-Furnace.aspx