King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71) explained

King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71)
Nearest City:Kings Creek, South Carolina
Added:May 8, 1987
Refnum:87000707

King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71) is a historic archaeological site located near Kings Creek, Cherokee County, South Carolina, 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 slag, 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.[1] [2]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: King’s Creek Furnace Site Cherokee County (Address Restricted) . National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. 25 February 2014.
  2. Web site: unknown. n.d. . King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. 25 February 2014.