Cedar Grove Iron Furnace
Ironworks, Perry County, Tennessee.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- Perry County, Tennessee
- Years
- 1861-1862
- Today
- Ruins
CEDAR GROVE IRON FURNACE
Double-stack charcoal furnace on the Tennessee River, built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1833. It made iron for the Confederate war effort until Fort Henry fell in February 1862. Union gunboats including the Conestoga, Tyler and Lexington then went up the river destroying furnace sites.
Then
The double-stack charcoal furnace, built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1833, made iron for the Confederate war effort on the Tennessee River.
It ran until Fort Henry fell in February 1862. Union gunboats including the Conestoga, Tyler and Lexington then went up the river destroying furnace sites.
Now
Ruins
The stack still stands, the only Civil War-era double-stack charcoal furnace in Tennessee.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 23 miles away.
Nearby
- 35 miJohnsonville supply baseUnion · Supply base, Johnsonville, Tennessee
- 35 miForrest destroys the Johnsonville supply baseNovember 4, 1864, Johnsonville, Tennessee
- 52 miCorinth rail junctionConfederate · Rail junction, Corinth, Mississippi
- 52 miCorinth under Union occupationUnion · Rail junction, Corinth, Mississippi
- 53 miRosecrans holds the Corinth junction against Van DornOctober 4, 1862, Corinth, Mississippi
- 54 miBeauregard abandons the Corinth rail junctionMay 30, 1862, Corinth, Mississippi