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Near here stood an iron furnace erected in 1817 by Peter Karthaus. Rebuilt in 1836 by Peter Ritner and John Say, it became in 1839 one of the earliest to use coke in place of charcoal. It was abandoned at the end of the same year.
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Karthaus, Pennsylvania · United States
