Aerial view. Bethlehem Steel Corporation now operates the ore banks that once supplied the Cornwall cold blast furnaces. The furnace, founded in 1742, supplied George Washington's Continental Army with munitions and cannon. Such minerals as iron ore, gold, silver and copper are still recovered there. Photo courtesy Lebanon Valley Tourist Bureau.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission sign at Cornwall Furnace. Cornwall Furnace comprises the vestiges of the oldest blast furnace in America. It is virtually intact following its closure about 1880.
Inside the Cornwall cold blast furnace, showing the early cannon and shot cast during the Revolutionary War, for George Washington's Continental Army. The General and the Marquis de Lafayette often visited here. Photo courtesy Lebanon Valley Tourist Bureau.
