Cornwall Furnace
Ironworks, Cedar Bluff, Alabama.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- Cedar Bluff, Alabama
- Years
- 1862-1864
- Today
- Marker only
CORNWALL FURNACE
The Noble brothers built the blast furnace in late 1862. Its pig iron went to the Noble foundry in Rome for Confederate war materials. Sherman's troops destroyed much of the furnace in the fall of 1864.
Then
The Noble brothers built the blast furnace in late 1862. Its pig iron went to the Noble foundry in Rome for Confederate war materials.
Sherman's troops destroyed much of the furnace in the fall of 1864 while pursuing the Army of Tennessee.
Now
Marker only
A marker stands on County Road 251 near Cedar Bluff.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by Norfolk Southern, about 14 miles away.
Nearby
- 2 miStreight's raid on the Western and Atlantic ends in surrenderMay 3, 1863, Cedar Bluff, Alabama
- 24 miNoble Brothers FoundryConfederate · Foundry, Rome, Georgia
- 40 miJanney FurnaceConfederate · Ironworks, Ohatchee, Alabama
- 45 miStevenson junction and Fort HarkerUnion · Rail junction, Stevenson, Alabama
- 49 miBridgeport landing and shipyardUnion · Supply base, Bridgeport, Alabama
- 49 miCooper's Iron Works, EtowahConfederate · Ironworks, near Cartersville, Georgia