Grace
Dates of Operation
History
"Grace Steam Cold-blast Charcoal Furnace, owned by Shanks and Patton, and managed by Thomas Cornelius, Grace Furnace P.O. Botetourt county Virginia, situated on Craig's Creek seventeen miles southeast of Covington and 17 miles west of Fincastle was built in 1849, 8½ feet across the bosh by 33 feet high, and made in about twenty-six weeks of 1856 about 900 tons of metal out of brown hematite ore from two banks within a hundred yards of teh furnace, mixed with other neighboring ores." (Lesley 1859, 72 See References)
Location
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Grace Furnace, 1989 |