Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . a was built in1762 and 1763 on Furnace creek, in West Manheim township,York county, by George Rcjss and Mark Bird. It was calledMary Ann furnace. In 1763 the owners petitioned the court ofYork county to open a public road from their furnace latelybuilt at a great expense to the road from the Conewago settle-ment to Baltimore, and in 1766 they petitioned the court to opena road from their furnace to the ]\Ionocacy road at FrederickEichelbergers tavern. A great many stoves were cast at this fur-nace, and during the Revolution it cast ma
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . a was built in1762 and 1763 on Furnace creek, in West Manheim township,York county, by George Rcjss and Mark Bird. It was calledMary Ann furnace. In 1763 the owners petitioned the court ofYork county to open a public road from their furnace latelybuilt at a great expense to the road from the Conewago settle-ment to Baltimore, and in 1766 they petitioned the court to opena road from their furnace to the ]\Ionocacy road at FrederickEichelbergers tavern. A great many stoves were cast at this fur-nace, and during the Revolution it cast many shot and shells. 349 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal George Ross was one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde-pendence. About 1765 a furnace and forge were erected bvWilHam Bennett on the south side of Codorus creek, near itsjunction with the Susquehanna, in HeHam township, Yorkcounty. The furnace was in operation during the 1810 these works were known as Codorus forge. Pine Grove furnace, in Cumberland county, was built in 1770. Town Buildings at Doylestown about 1840 From an old print by Thornl)urg & Arthur. About the year 1770 a furnace wasbuilt at Boiling Springs, in this county, forming the nucleus ofthe Carlisle iron works, which afterwards, about 1782, includeda forge, a rolling and slitting mill, and a steel furnace. During the Revolution the Continental Congress establishedand maintained an armory at Carlisle, where muskets, swords,and wrought iron cannon of great strength were manufac-tured. In 1776, and throughout the war, anthracite coal wastaken in arks from the Wyoming mines aljoxe Wilkes-Barre downthe Susquehanna to the armory at Carlisle. The first cargo sentdown the Susquehanna is said to have constituted the first ship-ment of anthracite coal that was made in this country. 350 Natural Resources The early Pennsylvania furnaces made from ten to twenty-five tons of pig iron or castings in a week, the highest limit heingseldom attained.
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