Janney Furnace

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months ago, maybe it was October, Laura called me up during the week and was all, “I have to go to some kind of Civil War thing in a neighboring county for to take pictures of a furnace or something. want to come along?”

i was all, “of course!”

when she came by to pick me up i was all, “what is this again?”

“i’m not sure. something called Janney Furnace.”

“and where is it?”

“Calhoun County.”

“and what is it?”

“a furnace. and a museum.”

“a furnace. does it still work?”

“i don’t know.”

“from the Civil War?”

“i’m guessing.”

“… what is it?”

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(i honestly thought i had already blogged about this, but after searching i found that i had not. shame on me.)

when we got there we were all, “oh.”

i was not expecting it to be just right there next to the road like that. i guess i was thinking it was going to be this big metal industrial looking thing. i was a bit stunned to find it was sort of this big chimney.

you can walk up to it and inside it. here’s the main front opening:

you can see it’s circular on the inside. and on both sides there are two openings:


this on is on the right.


this one is on the left.

then the chimney part goes up and it’s awesomely circular.

what was this furnace for? well, i could tell you, or you could do what i did and read the sign.

there were a couple of big rock chunks by the entrance of the furnace. i’m not sure if it’s the “pig iron” that the sign mentions or if it’s just chunks of iron ore. i’m not a geologist.

next to the furnace is the Confederate Memorial. it’s a memorial to the soldiers from Calhoun County. It names both the ones who died in battle as well as the survivors. i did not get any good pictures of this. it is quite long.


unfortunate use of quotation marks.

and here’s Laura flirting shamelessly with Johnny Reb.

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