Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument | |
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Location | North Canaan, Connecticut, United States |
Coordinates | 42°0′39″N 73°17′34″W / 42.01083°N 73.29278°W |
Area | 12 acres (4.9 ha)[1] |
Designation | Connecticut state park |
Established | 1946 |
Administrator | Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection |
Website | Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument |
Beckley Furnace | |
Area | 7 acres (2.8 ha) |
Built | 1847 |
Built by | John Beckley and William Pierce |
NRHP reference No. | 78002847 |
Added to NRHP | February 14, 1978 |
The Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument is a state-owned historic site preserving a 19th-century iron-making blast furnace on the north bank of the Blackberry River in the town of North Canaan, Connecticut. The site became a 12-acre (4.9 ha) state park in 1946;[2] it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[3]