Existing comment:
The path leads to the tenant houses where the workers lived. On the left is a boarding house. A sign says:
Iron Community Life
On either side of the road in front of you are homes where iron workers once lived. In the mid-1800's, tenants paid $12-$25 a year to rent a house here, while other families lived off furnace property or rented near mines. Although residents were close to their work at the furnace, they faced discomforts of noise, dust, and wagons steadily creaking up and down this road. To your right are ruins of a schoolhouse, built by the furnace company in 1837. |