The South Mountain Iron Company was the owner of the Pine Grove Furnace in

Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Cumberland County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 259,469. Its county seat is Carlisle. Cumberland County is included in the Harrisburg–Carlisle metropolitan statistical area. Histo ...

, along

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after the 1864 $1,500,000 purchase from Jay Cooke & Company. ( Jay Cooke & Company had purchased the

Pine Grove Iron Works The Pine Grove Iron Works was a southcentral Pennsylvania smelting facility during the Industrial Revolution. The works is notable for remaining structures that are historical visitor attractions of Pine Grove Furnace State Park, including the ...

for $225,000 in 1863.) In 1877 the company was split into separate mining and railway companies, with the latter South Mountain Railway and Mining Company establishing the 1884

South Mountain Railroad The South Mountain Railroad was an American railroad which operated in Pennsylvania. History The railroad was incorporated May 5, 1854 by a group of largely local investors. It was to run from Harrisburg to Jonestown, from thence along the south ...

between the

and the Cumberland Valley Railroad's Carlisle Junction then being purchased by the 1891

Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway was a Pennsylvania line from near Carlisle southward to Gettysburg operated by subsidiaryof the Reading Company. The line also included the Round Top Branch over the Gettysburg Battlefield to Round Top, Pen ...

company. The real estate of the 1877 South Mountain Mining and Iron Company is now the Pine Grove Furnace State Park and

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after being sold to the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry in 1912-3.

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{{Reflist Defunct mining companies of the United States Defunct companies based in Pennsylvania History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Ironworks and steel mills in Pennsylvania South Mountain Range (Maryland−Pennsylvania) American companies established in 1865 Non-renewable resource companies disestablished in 1913 1865 disestablishments in Pennsylvania 1913 disestablishments in Pennsylvania Non-renewable resource companies established in 1865