Old Furnace State Park Maps

Old Furnace State Park Description

This 367 acre park has a storied industrial history and a present day attractiveness all its own. A three-quarter mile trail accesses a viewpoint with a ten mile view. Colonial New England was famed for its use of water power to drive the machinery in its mills. The potential energy that could be harnessed from flowing water was based on the steepness of the elevational drop in the streambed; the greater the drop, the more the potential power. Iron making was one of the many industries to use water power. Iron ore was processed in a blast furnace and produced iron that could be formed into a