Carolina Quotes Supply Lines

Endor Iron Furnace

Ironworks, Cumnock, North Carolina.

Side
Confederate
Kind
Ironworks
Where
Cumnock, North Carolina
Years
1862-1865
Today
Ruins
Civil War Supply Lines

ENDOR IRON FURNACE

Stone blast furnace on the Deep River. It produced pig iron for the Confederate Army and supplied the Confederacy through 1865. The furnace was reopened in 1870.

Confederate · 1862-1865carolinaquotes.com

ENDOR IRON WORKS

Large smelting furnace provided iron, 1862-65, to Confederacy. Reopened 1870 & ceased to operate 1896. Remains 1 1/2 mi. NE.

H-102Lee County
North Carolina highway marker H-102. Where it stands

Then

The stone blast furnace on the Deep River produced pig iron for the Confederate Army.

The furnace supplied the Confederacy through 1865 and was reopened in 1870.

Now

Ruins

The stone furnace stack, about 35 feet tall, still stands.

Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by Norfolk Southern.

Nearby

Sources

  1. Endor Iron Furnace (Wikipedia)
  2. Endor Iron Works marker, HMDB