Janney Furnace
Ironworks, Ohatchee, Alabama.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- Ohatchee, Alabama
- Years
- 1863-1864
- Today
- Park
JANNEY FURNACE
Alfred Janney built the furnace in 1863 to make pig iron from local ore. A Union raid in July 1864 destroyed everything except the stone stack.
Then
Alfred Janney built the furnace in 1863 to make pig iron from local ore.
A Union raid in July 1864 destroyed everything except the stone stack.
Now
Park
The fifty-foot stone stack stands in Eli Henderson Park, with a museum on the grounds.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by a smaller railroad, about 1.1 miles away.
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