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Photographer: William Honachefsky Jr
Taken: November 16, 2004
Caption: The Mining Lands of Allen and Turner,
Additional Description: Once called Union Furnace, now the William B. Honachefsky Spruce Run Gorge Memorial Tract.

The William B Honachefsky Memorial Tract, contains all of the historical iron ore mining lands of the oldest foundry in United States history, the 11,000 acre Union Iron Works/Taylor Wharton founded in 1742 by Allen, a Supreme Court justice and Turner,a sea captain. Both were prominent Philadelphia businessman. Now a part of Spruce Run State Park. Allen's and Turner's, "Ironworks along the Spruce" contained some of the richest iron ore of the Colonies. Union Iron Works furnished cannonballs for Washington's Continental Army from this tract. The tract, was preserved and dedicated on behalf of the former Union president of Taylor Wharton and his son, a world famous author and environmentalist, both avid hunters and outdoorsmen.
Submitted: January 27, 2008, by William Honachefsky Jr of High Bridge/Clinton Twp, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p14897
File Size: 0.979 Megabytes

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