Curtin Village, also known as Eagle Ironworks, is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

located in Boggs Township,

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. The district includes eighteen contributing buildings and three contributing structures in Curtin.

History and features

This historic district is composed of buildings and structures related to an ironworks dating back to 1810, when the village was founded by Roland Curtin, Sr., father of Pennsylvania's Civil War-era governor

Andrew Gregg Curtin Andrew Gregg Curtin (April 22, 1815/1817October 7, 1894) was a U.S. lawyer and politician. He served as the Governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil War, helped defend his state during the Gettysburg Campaign, and led organization of the crea ...

, and Miles Boggs. It includes an iron master's mansion (1830), a late-19th century Victorian style dwelling, the Eagle Furnace stack (1847), the remains of a

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...

, a number of worker's houses, and an overgrown canal basin. The Eagle Ironworks closed in 1921. ''Note:'' This includes The area continues to be conserved by historic preservationists. Owned by the

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, it is operated as the Curtin Village at Eagle Ironworks Historical Site by the Roland Curtin Foundation. It was added to the

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in 1971. File:Eagle Ironworks Sluice Dec 12.jpg, Sluice at Eagle Ironworks, December 2012 File:Eagle Ironworks Victorian dwelling Dec 12.jpg, Victorian-era dwelling at Eagle Ironworks, December 2012 File:Eagle Ironworks Ironmasters Mansion Dec 12.jpg, Ironmaster's Mansion at Eagle Ironworks, December 2012 File:Eagle Ironworks Workers House Dec 12.jpg, Worker's house at Eagle Ironworks, December 2012 File:Eagle Ironworks Alt View Dec 12.jpg, Eagle Ironworks Alternate View, December 2012

References

External links

Curtin Village website
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania History museums in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Federal architecture in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures in Centre County, Pennsylvania Blast furnaces in the United States Ironworks and steel mills in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Centre County, Pennsylvania