The Old Furnace Town Heritage Museum is an outdoor museum near Snow Hill, Maryland that uses a living history format with live demonstrations to re-create a vanished 19th-century community.[1] The museum contains various historic buildings, including most importantly the Nassawango Iron Furnace, an early 19th-century brick blast furnace that was used to smelt bog iron ore to make pig iron.[2] Other buildings, all of which have been moved to the site, include a church, a store, and several houses, one of which is used as an information center.
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| Location | 3816 Old Furnace Town Snow Hill, Maryland |
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| Type | History |
| Website | Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum |
R. Frank Jones Museum
editThis building was Initially constructed in 1869 and moved to the Furnace Town Village in 1977.[3] The museum contains exhibits on the history of the local area and processing of pig iron.[3]
Notes
edit- ^ Ocean City Vacation and Hotels Guide. "Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum", Ocean City Vacation and Hotels Guide website, 2007. Retrieved on January 18, 2008.
- ^ Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum. "Furnace Town Village" Archived 2007-11-05 at the Wayback Machine, Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum website. Retrieved on January 19, 2008.
- ^ a b Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum. "Museum" Archived 2007-08-07 at the Wayback Machine, Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum website. Retrieved on January 19, 2008.
External links
edit- Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum (official website)
- Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum (Ocean City Vacation and Hotels Guide website)
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