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Title
Etna
Furnace
Photograph
Subject
Business and Labor
Geography and Natural Resources
Furnaces
Iron industry
Place
Lawrence County (Ohio)
Description
This
photograph
depicts
(Big)
Etna
Furnace
.
Etna
Ironworks
was
established
in
1832
. In the
1870s
, the
company
built
the
furnace
pictured
here.
It
was
claimed
to be the
largest
furnace
in the
world
until
1900
.
Big
Etna's
twin
stacks
,
nicknamed
"
Alice
" and "
Blanche
"
each
stood
eighty-six
feet
high
and had a
sixty-ton
daily
capacity
.
Furnace
men
from
around
the
United
States
and
Europe
visited
Etna
Furnace
to
study
its
construction
and
workings
. The
photograph
measures
11.65
by
8.2
inches
(29.59
by
20.82
cm)
.
Big
Etna
was
one
of
more
than
thirty
pig
iron
furnaces
that
operated
in the
Hanging
Rock
Iron
Region
. This
region
includes
the
Ohio
counties
of
Lawrence
,
Jackson
,
Scioto
, and
Vinton
, as
well
as
northeastern
Kentucky
and the
western
part
of
West
Virginia
. The
Hanging
Rock
Region
was
rich
in
iron
ore
and
timber
needed
to
produce
the
charcoal
that
fueled
the
furnaces
.
Date of Original
1900
circa
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Briggs Lawrence County Public Library
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om420_923304_001.tif
Image Height
2461
Image Width
3495
File Size
406.157 KB
Format
picture
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