Susanna C. Kuo (Author)
Rick Minor (Author)
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 Expanding on interim accounts in unpublished reports, this paper provides a synthesis of the findings of those investigations, which revealed new details about the furnace’s construction and modifications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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