Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum

Near Snow Hill, Maryland, Furnace Town preserves the historic Nassawango Iron Furnace, an early 19th-century brick blast furnace where bog iron ore was smelted into pig iron, tying the site to the region’s industrial past. Around it stands a village-like group of relocated historic buildings, including a church, a store, houses, and the R. Frank Jones Museum, originally built in 1869 and moved there in 1977. Together these structures show how industry and community developed side by side in this part of Maryland, preserving both the remains of early iron production and the everyday settings that gave that work its local context.

Maryland · United States