Long Pond Ironworks State Park
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www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/parks/longpond.html
The Friends of Long Pond Ironwork, Inc.
P.O. Box 809
Hewitt, NJ 07421
(973) 657-1688
Info@LongPondIronworks.org
Long Pond Ironworks was founded in 1766 by Peter Hasenclever. Hasenclever brought 500 ironworkers and their families from Germany to build an ironworks "plantation". A dam at "Long Pond" (Greenwood Lake) provided the waterpower needed to operate a blast for the furnace and a large forge. Metalmaking stopped at the site in 1882 when the ironworks was bankrupted by newer facilities in Pittsburgh. The remnants of the ironmaking structures at the district date from the 18th and 19th centuries. There are furnaces, casting house ruins, charging areas, ice houses, waterwheels and other structures. The area is currently undergoing restoration. The "Old Country Store" has been renovated and now houses the Long Pond Ironworks Museum. The original Village of Hewitt grew up around the 19th-century iron enterprise. This settlement included a church, a store/post office, schoolhouses, and dwellings and outbuildings for workers and managers.
The Friends of Long Pond Ironwork, Inc.
P.O. Box 809
Hewitt, NJ 07421
(973) 657-1688
Info@LongPondIronworks.org
Long Pond Ironworks was founded in 1766 by Peter Hasenclever. Hasenclever brought 500 ironworkers and their families from Germany to build an ironworks "plantation". A dam at "Long Pond" (Greenwood Lake) provided the waterpower needed to operate a blast for the furnace and a large forge. Metalmaking stopped at the site in 1882 when the ironworks was bankrupted by newer facilities in Pittsburgh. The remnants of the ironmaking structures at the district date from the 18th and 19th centuries. There are furnaces, casting house ruins, charging areas, ice houses, waterwheels and other structures. The area is currently undergoing restoration. The "Old Country Store" has been renovated and now houses the Long Pond Ironworks Museum. The original Village of Hewitt grew up around the 19th-century iron enterprise. This settlement included a church, a store/post office, schoolhouses, and dwellings and outbuildings for workers and managers.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Pond_Ironworks_State_Park
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Coordinates: 41°7'6"N 74°19'35"W
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