| Shade Furnace Archeological District | |
| Nrhp Type: | hd |
| Nocat: | yes |
| Coordinates: | 40.1531°N -78.8283°W |
| Builder: | George Reynolds, Peter Gerhart |
| Architecture: | 19th-century stone blast furnace |
| Added: | January 10, 2008 |
| Refnum: | 07001380 |
Shade Furnace Archeological District, also known as Old Shade Furnace and Shade Forge, is a national historic district located at Shade Township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The district includes four contributing sites and two contributing objects. It encompasses the ruins of a countryside plantation style iron forge operation that operated from 1808 to 1858. It includes a stone blast furnace structure, a forge site, an ore pit site, a farmstead site, and a late 19th-century coal mine complex. The area includes a number of archaeological sites associated with the ruins of abandoned buildings.[1]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.