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Kemble Coal & Iron Company, Riddlesburg Works, Riddlesburg, Bedford County, PA
Summary
Significance: Although this site contained an iron furnace as early as 1807, the remnants of the pig-iron producing operation date from the 1910s through the 1940s. This includes a (ca. 1906) building that likely served as the blowing furnaces and a battery of stone and brick constructed beehive coke ovens.
Survey number: HAER PA-362
Building/structure dates: 1807 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: before 1877 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1910 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1940 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1940
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Colonial Iron & Coal
U.S. Pipe & Foundry Company
New Enterprise Stone & Lime Company
Kemble Coal & Iron Company
Baronig Baron Enterprises
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
America's Industrial Heritage Project (AIHP), sponsor
Madrid, transmitter
Will, Elaine J, historian
Wallace, Kim E, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Location
bedford county, 40.16187, -78.25438
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
