Near South 9th Street at Washington Street, on the right when traveling north.
Hecla Furnace was one of 46 charcoal iron furnaces located in southern Ohio's six-county Hanging Rock Iron Region. The furnaces produced iron from 1818 to 1916. By 1875, southeastern Ohio led the nation in iron production. Civil War armaments, . . . — — Map (db m310274) HM
On Park Avenue at 4th Street, on the right when traveling west on Park Avenue.
The Hanging Rock Iron Region
To furnish the needs of the early settlers, then to furnish ordnance for a nation at war, and finally to furnish merchant iron to the steel mills, 100 iron producing blast furnaces were built within these 1,800 . . . — — Map (db m59371) HM
