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Illinois Iron Furnace

Rosiclare area, IL

A reconstructed 19th-century stone blast furnace recalls the brief iron industry that once operated deep in what is now Shawnee National Forest.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: fs.usda.gov/media/242563

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