Article ID: CBB448643775

The Oswego Furnace: Industrial Archaeology at the First Iron Works on the Pacific Coast (2016)

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The first iron furnace on the Pacific Coast was built in 1866 in Oswego, Oregon, a village on the Willamette River eight miles south of Portland. Known as the “Pioneer of the Pacific,” the Oswego Furnace is today the only nineteenth-century furnace still standing west of the Rocky Mountains. In 1945, the furnace site was purchased by the City of Oswego (now the City of Lake Oswego) as the town’s first park. A project to preserve the stack was initiated in 2003. Recognizing that archaeological remains associated with the works might be present below ground, the city contracted with Heritage Research Associates of Eugene, Oregon, for a series of archaeological investigations between 2003 and 2010. Expanding on interim accounts in unpublished reports, this paper provides a synthesis of the findings of those investigations, which revealed new details about the furnace’s construction and modifications made during its years of operation. [2021 Vogel Prize winner]

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Authors & Contributors
Roberta Wingerson
John H. Kopmeier
Ruminski, Clayton J.
Paul White
Brian Schmult
Jeffrey M. LaLande
Concepts
Industrial archaeology
Iron and iron industry
Blast furnaces
Charcoal and charcoal industry
Iron, Cast
Steel and steel industry
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
Carp River
Juniata County
Youngstown, OH
Institutions
West Point Foundry
Adirondack Iron and Steel Company
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
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