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Show FURNACE RELIC j SHOWS ENDURANCE; NKW YORK. Feb. i'-A relic which! is well worth a visit Is a blast furnace at Uu'ensboro. two miles back of Hear Mountain. Aa a tablet on the structure i Indicates. It was built before the revo- ! lullun and was standing when. "In tc- j ober. 1777. a Hritish detachment of six) I men on their way from Stony Point to i attack Kort Montgomery forded Pop- ; olopean creek at this point." The old structure of ml..J masonry ' Was so well put together that it could be used today. About two miles west of the furnace Is the iron mine of he i Kort Montgomery Iron company, which i supplied the Iron used In the links in I . the Iron chain which crossed the llud-( sim river from Kort Montgomery. The i I furnace has been In operation for 1S0! years and Is still bring used. ' |