King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71) is a historic

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located near Kings Creek,

Cherokee County, South Carolina Cherokee County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,216. The county seat is Gaffney. The county was formed in 1897 from parts of York, Union, and Spartanburg counties. It was named ...

, United States. The site contains a partially collapsed but well-preserved iron furnace built about 1838, retaining walls, sluiceway, stone dam abutments, stone building foundations, large piles of

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, and a large slag levee along the creek bank. It also includes the remains of the site's log framed dam. King's Creek Furnace Site is one of two remaining sites that can be associated with the King's Mountain Iron Company, a major iron manufacturing company that operated in present-day Cherokee County from about 1815 to about 1860. The other site is Jackson's Furnace Site in York County. It was listed in 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 1838 National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, South Carolina Ironworks and steel mills in the United States Industrial furnaces {{CherokeeCountySC-NRHP-stub