Etna Furnace, also known as Mount Etna Furnace, Aetna Furnace, and Aetna Iron Works, is a historic

iron furnace A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper. ''Blast'' refers to the combustion air being "forced" or supplied above atmospheric p ...

complex and 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 at

Catharine Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania Catharine Township is a township in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 774 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Altoona, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Located in Catharine Township is the Mount Etna Furnac ...

. The district includes five contributing buildings, six contributing sites, and two contributing structures. It encompasses a community developed around an iron furnace starting in 1805. Included in the district is the four-sided stone furnace (1808), gristmill site (c. 1793), canal locks (c. 1832), site of lock keeper's house (c. 1832), aqueduct (c. 1832, rebuilt 1848), two small houses, the ruins of a charcoal house (1808), the foundation of a tally house, a blacksmith shop (c. 1831),

bank barn A bank barn or banked barn is a style of barn noted for its accessibility, at ground level, on two separate levels. Often built into the side of a hill, or bank, both the upper and the lower floors area could be accessed from ground level, one are ...

(c. 1831), foundation of a boarding house, three family tenant house, two iron master' mansions (one destroyed), a store and paymaster's office (c. 1831), Methodist / Episcopal Church (1860), and cemetery with graves dating between 1832 and 1859. ''Note:'' This includes ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1973, with a boundary increase in 1991.

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* * {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures in Blair County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Blair County, Pennsylvania