Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company furnaces
Ironworks, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Ironworks
- Where
- Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Years
- 1861-1865
- Today
- State historic site
SCRANTON IRON FURNACES
Iron furnaces of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, where rails for the Erie Railroad were made as early as 1847. By 1865 Scranton, Grant & Company had the largest iron production capacity in the United States.
Then
Iron rails for the Erie Railroad were made at the site as early as 1847. By 1865 Scranton, Grant & Company had the largest iron production capacity in the United States.
Now
State historic site
The furnace site is preserved as the Scranton Iron Furnaces, managed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission as part of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum complex.
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by a smaller railroad.