Stacker Furnace, also called Olive Landing and Line Island, was built here by William Ewing and French Rayburn in 1845-46 and was afterward owned by Samuel Stacker. It had a steam-powered air blast. Using ore from nearby deposits and locally made charcoal fuel, it produced pig iron at intervals until 1856, when it was finally abandoned. Kentucky had been a major iron producer since 1791, ranking third in the United States in the 1830s and eleventh in 1965. Charcoal timber, native ore, and limestone supplied materials for numerous furnaces that made pig iron, utensils, and munitions in the Hanging Rock, Red River, Between Rivers, Rolling Fork, and Green River regions. The charcoal-furnace era ended in the 1880s with depletion of ore and timber and the use of modern methods.