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The two furnaces at this site, dating to the 1790s, are the oldest existing metalworking structures in California. They were used to produce wrought iron and introduced the natives living here to the Metal Age. Before that, only skills in stone, wood, bone, and shell were known.
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San Juan Capistrano, California · United States
