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Adventure Awaits in IRON COUNTRY 11 L 12 Gable Ave 7 Pottstown Hay Creek Rd 10 7c NY 7a 7b New York City ie Er South Hanover St Birdsboro PA Preserve Philadelphia Schuylkill Hopewell Furnace 724 H Highlands Neman Rd Iron Country NJ National Historic Site Pittsburgh 1 MD French Creek 9 6 DE Furnace Rd State Park 5 Washington DC Laurelwood Rd 2 Harmonyville Rd Chestnut Hill Rd 4a VA Cold Run Rd South Enterance Rd WV 3 5a West Bridge St 4 Park Rd St. Peters Rd Grace Rd Old Ridge Rd 7 2nd Ave Hopewell Rd 23 8 Morgantown Rd 6 8a 2d Dampman Rd Pughtown Rd 5 Grove Rd 4 6a 5 Elverson Mason Rd Warwick Furnace Rd Camp Councill Rd James Mill Rd 3 2 Hareshill Rd Gay St 2c 7 2a 2b Phoenixville Horseshoe Trail 4 6 Hollow Rd 401 Birchrun Rd Historic 113 3 3 Yellow Springs Charlestown Rd Art School Rd Conestoga Rd Church Rd 1 322 1 282 Clover Mill Rd 8 Valley Forge Yellow Spring Rd 100 Pikeland Rd Honeybrook National Historical Park 82 2 4 29 202 10 Springton Manor Marsh Creek 252 State Park Highspire Rd 5 6 Exton Park Hibernia Rd Malvern Park Rd 113 Hibernia Park 2 Cedar Knoll Rd 30 Lyons Head Dr 10 9 2a 7a 340 Numbers correspond to tour sites 7 Downingtown Building Freedom Tour 100 Wagontown Rd Supplying Freedom Tour Powering Freedom Tour 10 1 Optional Sites Forging Freedom Tour Manor Rd Coatesville National Iron & Steel Schuylkill Highlands Iron & Steel Heritage Byway (Proposed) Doe Run Rd Shadyside Rd 322 Heritage Museum West Chester 372 162 Iron & Steel Site Upper Gap Rd 8 Strasburg Rd 372 1a 1b 52 Adventure Awaits IN IRON COUNTRY Challenging trails for hiking, pristine streams for water sports and fishing, scenic bicycle routes, historic sites and heritage towns; award winning vineyards and mini-breweries, specialty farms. You are invited to explore the Iron & Steel Heritage and Recreation region located in and around the Schuylkill Highlands Conservation Landscape and Hopewell Big Woods, the finest natural preserve in our region. We encourage you to select from the many locations depending on your schedule, or a self-guided heritage tour blending history and recreation to discover the Iron & Steel Landscape’s many “Faces of Freedom.” Etched into the natural landscape of portions of Pennsylvania’s Chester, Berks, Montgomery and Lancaster Adventure Awaits Counties are sites that celebrate the iron and steel industries IN IRON COUNTRY that literally forged our nation. Starting in the early 1700’s, immigrants came seeking a better life. The region produced cannons and munitions that supported George Washington. For more information, visit our website at: It also witnessed the struggle to end slavery and welcomed IronandSteelHeritage.org the nation’s first female industrialists. Immigrant labor in iron-county contributed to the Union cause during the Civil War. Immigrants helped make our nation an industrial giant by the start of the 20th Century. We invite you to enjoy waterways and hiking trails through woodlands, farms and fields; to explore historic towns and villages; and to tour ironmaster mansions and 300 years of industrial sites. From National Parks and outdoor recreation; Links to pages from livingplaces.com include text that has been adapted from copies of original nomination documents of sites appearing on the National Park Service's to specialty farms, mini breweries and vineyards; to quiet National Register of Historic Places. Living Places has been deemed reliable, villages or urban night life…morning, noon, and night we but not guaranteed. have it all! This project was funded in part by a grant from Community Conservation Partnerships Program, under the administration of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation in support of the Schuylkill Highlands Conservation Landscape. SUGGESTED START: Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site Visitor’s Center Forging Freedom Tour ALLOW: 7 hours to tour; 2 days to explore Both literally and figuratively the ironmasters of this region supported their emerging nation by forging IRON & STEEL SITES: Joanna Furnace, Warwick County Park, Warwick Furnace, Coventryville, freedom. Early ironmasters resented British laws that required them to ship pig iron to England and Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, and Pine Forge then buy back the finished product. When war came to North America in 1775, the iron industry forged freedom by supplying munitions to Washington’s beleaguered army. The Forging Freedom Tour HERITAGE & RECREATION: French Creek State Park, Coventry Woods Preserve, Welkinweir, explores this theme beginning at Hopewell Furnace, which provided war materials for the American Warwick County Park, Monocacy Hill Recreation Area, and Crow’s Nest Preserve HISTORIC VILLAGES Revolution and the Civil War, and experienced every social and political event of the 19th century. TO SHOP & EAT: Elverson, Douglassville, Coventryville, Birdsboro, and St. Peters Village It tours neighboring furnaces, that were critical to the war effort and growth of the new country. (1) Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (5) Elverson aBU (6a) Warwick Furnace mar (9) Coventry Woods Preserve m>r 9mB>raQ Heritage Stop at the intersection of Rts 23 and 82. Valley Way and Warwick Furnace Road 1954 St. Peters Road, Pottstown 2 Mark Bird Lane, Elverson livingplaces.com (search: Elverson) Thomas P. Bentley Preserve 610-323-1694 • northcoventry.us 610-582-8773 • nps.gov/hofu 610-933-7577 • frenchandpickering.org (5a) Crow’s Nest Preserve mr (10) Douglassville BUrm> (2) French Creek State Park 201 Piersol Road, Elverson (7) St. Peters Village aBU Morlatton Village mB>r0s!P3? 610-286-7995 • natlands.org/Crows_Nest 3471 St. Peters Road, St. Peters 31 Old Philadelphia Pike, Douglassville 843 Park Road, Elverson livingplaces.com (search: Saint Peters) 610-385-4762 • [email protected] (6) Warwick County Park & Iron Tour 610-582-9680 • dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks 9mB>r0sP?Q a ma (search: French Creek) (8) Coventryville (11) Pine Forge Historical Society 191 County Park Road, Pottstown 1521 Old Ridge Road, Pottstown Pine Forge Historic Site (3) Joanna Furnace 9 mBaQ 610-469-1916 • chesco.org/ccparks livingplaces.com (search: Coventryville) 361 Pine Forge Road, Pine Forge 1250 Furnace Road, Geigertown 610-326-5800 • rutterfoundation.org mr mraQ 610-286-0388 • haycreek.org Horseshoe Trail at Warwick (8a) Welkinweir Supplying & Powering Freedom Tours 368 Prizer Road, Pughtown (12) Birdsboro BU (4) Morgantown BU hstrail.org 610-469-7543 • welkinweir.org Heritage Stop at the intersection of Rts 345 and 724. Heritage Stop at the intersection of Rts 23 and 10. livingplaces.com (search: Birdsboro) livingplaces.com (search: Morgantown) Supplying Freedom Tour SUGGESTED START: Historic Yellow Springs This area of Chester County supplied the fight for freedom with iron products, food, medicines, and ALLOW: 4 hours to tour; 1 day to explore textiles. Washington’s army at Valley Forge would not have survived the winter of 1777-1778 without HERITAGE & RECREATION: The Woolen Mill of Charlestown, Mill at Anselma, Continental Powder Works and support from the surrounding countryside. Unfortunately, the area also supplied freedom with the Rapps Dam Covered Bridge, Historic Sugartown, Historic Yellow Springs, sacrifice of soldiers and the looting of civilian property during the Philadelphia Campaign of 1777. The Birchrunville, Sheeder-Hall Covered Bridge, and French Creek Trail Supplying Freedom Tour begins at Historic Yellow Springs where Washington set up headquarters after HISTORIC VILLAGES Ludwigs Corner, Kimberton Village, Historic Sugartown, and Paoli Battlefield the Battle of the Clouds and the first military hospital in the United States was built. It continues to explore TO SHOP & EAT: Historic Park this theme with visits to the Paoli Battlefield and three mills which provided gun powder, flour and cloth. (1) Historic Yellow Springs (3) Ludwig’s Corner aBUm (5) Sheeder-Hall Covered Bridge a (7) Continental Powder Works and (9) Historic Sugartown 9mB>a 9maQB> 2904 Conestoga Road, Glenmoore Heritage Stop at the intersection of Sheeder Rapps Dam Covered Bridge Road 90 Sugartown Road, Malvern 1685 Art School Road, Chester Springs livingplaces.com Road and Birchrun Roads, Chester Springs. amBrP 610-640-2667 • historicsugartown.org 610-827-7414 • yellowsprings.org (search: West Vincent) 1158 Rapps Dam Road, Phoenixville (6) Kimberton Village aUm eastpikeland.org (10) Paoli Battlefield Historical Park (2) Mill at Anselma (4) Birchrunville a m 2105 Kimberton Road, Kimberton 9 m > aU 9 maQB> 1403 Hollow Road, Birchrunville livingplaces.com (search: Kimberton) (8) The Woolen Mill of Charlestown am Heritage Stop at the intersection of 1730 Conestoga Road, Chester Springs livingplaces.com 2405 Charlestown Road, Malvern 1st Avenue and Wayne Avenue, Malvern. 610-827-1906 • anselmamill.org (search: Birchrunville) charlestown.pa.us/historical_mill.asp 484-320-7173 • pbpfinc.org SUGGESTED START: National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum and Lukens National Historic District Building Freedom Tour ALLOW: 3 hours to tour; ½-1 day to explore At the end of the American Revolution, a new nation offered some, but not all, of its citizens IRON & STEEL SITES: National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum, Hibernia Mansion, Langoma unprecedented advantages both politically and economically. To build freedom, however, the citizens Mansion (Isabella Furnace), Dowlin Forge Park, and Wyebrook Farm Iron Tour of Chester County fought to end slavery and accepted an unprecedented role for women. Rebecca Lukens took over her family’s company in 1825 and saved
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