{"id":598,"slug":"eliza-furnace-vintondale-pennsylvania","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Eliza is the brief — the 'three years' that's the blast's span, the '1,080 tons' that's the year's iron. The 'hot blast' is the first — the 'heat exchanger' that's the tech preserved, the 'few surviving' that's the nation's rare. The 'company town' is the built — the '21 cabins' that's the workers housed, the '45 mules' that's the ore hauled.","The 'transport killed' is the failed — the 'wagon to Ninevah' that's the canal too far, the 'ore poor' that's the geology's limit. The 'Ghost Town Trail' is the kept — the 'stack stands' that's the 32 feet left, the 'bosh nine feet' that's the belly's measure. Eliza is the flash — the 'valley's first' that's the furnace's pride, the 'three years' that's the profit's absence.","The file keeps Eliza: the hot blast pioneer, the company town, the three-year run, and the standing stack.","Eliza Furnace is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the furnace that burned three years."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Eliza Furnace is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the iron works that failed fast.","A stack keeps its blast — the file's suggestion being that Eliza's hold is the brief: the 'hot blast' that's the tech's edge, the 'three years' that's the market's verdict, and the 'stack standing' that's the ruin's proof."]}],"name":"Eliza Furnace","aliases":[],"type":"IRON_FURNACE_RUINS","type_label":"Iron Furnace Ruins","cats":["INDUSTRIAL_RUINS"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Preserved nineteenth-century iron furnace beside the Ghost Town Trail.","full_desc":"Eliza Furnace is a iron furnace ruins in Vintondale, Pennsylvania. Preserved nineteenth-century iron furnace beside the Ghost Town Trail. Constructed in 1845–46, the furnace operated only three years. Transport difficulties, inferior local ore and falling prices contributed to its closure. Original heat-exchanger piping survives.","address":null,"city":"Vintondale","county":null,"state":"Pennsylvania","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":40.480731,"lon":-78.910794,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://indianacountyparks.org/our-parks/eliza-furnace/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":1846,"year_closed":1849,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Register of Historic Places","current_use":null,"research_notes":"Furnace identity verified; county boundary and exact coordinates need checking. Do not inherit obsolete trail length from furnace page (36 miles), as current trail homepage reports 54 miles.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Constructed in 1845–46, the furnace operated only three years. Transport difficulties, inferior local ore and falling prices contributed to its closure. Original heat-exchanger piping survives. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'History of Eliza Furnace' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"History of Eliza Furnace","url":"https://indianacountyparks.org/our-parks/eliza-furnace/history-of-eliza-furnace-historic-site/","publisher":"Indiana County Parks & Trails","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"public_restroom":"Restroom at nearby Eliza Station","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"Eliza Furnace Historic Site","url":"https://indianacountyparks.org/our-parks/eliza-furnace/","publisher":"Indiana County Parks & Trails","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},"sources":[{"name":"Ghost Town Trail History","url":"https://indianacountyparks.org/our-trails/ghost-town-trail/ghost-town-trail-history/","publisher":"Indiana County Parks & Trails","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"History of Eliza Furnace","url":"https://indianacountyparks.org/our-parks/eliza-furnace/history-of-eliza-furnace-historic-site/","publisher":"Indiana County Parks & Trails","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Eliza Furnace Historic Site","url":"https://indianacountyparks.org/our-parks/eliza-furnace/","publisher":"Indiana County Parks & Trails","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":3}}