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DO NOT TRESSPASS ON FORT DIX<br />
Hanover<br />
Furnance<br />
Hanover Furnace, (builders Ridgway, Howell, Lacey<br />
and Earl), E of Browns Mill, 1792<br />
furnance<br />
which supported early 19<br />
Brick ruins of<br />
th<br />
industrial community of 200 residents:<br />
centrury<br />
produced<br />
cannon and cannonballs during War of 1812 and<br />
later produced pipe for the Philadelphia Water<br />
Works and other commercial iron products until<br />
1865.<br />
F urnance<br />
fueled by Pine Barrens charcoal.<br />
Iron produced at Hanover Furnace was<br />
smelted from local bog iron.<br />
Canal<br />
Approximate Location<br />
of<br />
Hanover Furnance<br />
Fort Dix Border<br />
ref:<br />
Natioanl<br />
Regesiter<br />
of<br />
Pierce: Iron in the Pines<br />
Historic Places<br />
Canal
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