Jackson's Furnace Site, also known as Stroup's Furnace, is a historic

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located near

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. The site includes an earthen sluiceway, stone dam abutments, the stone foundation of an iron furnace and

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heaps. It is one of only two sites that can be associated with the King's Mountain Iron Company, which operated in present-day Cherokee County from about 1815 to about 1860. The other site is King's Creek Furnace Site in Cherokee County. It was added to the

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in 1987.

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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Industrial buildings completed in 1815 Buildings and structures in York County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in York County, South Carolina Industrial furnaces Ironworks and steel mills in the United States {{YorkCountySC-NRHP-stub