New Listing Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site Token For Sale

The Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site is located in SE Pennsylvania near the towns of Elverson and Reading. Founded in 1771, the furnace was a charcoal-fired cold blast iron furnace whose surroundings included a working iron plantation with 53 buildings that included worker housing, a blacksmith shop, charcoal house, barn, smokehouse, cast house and furnace stack. A major product of the site was a Hopewell Stove, a portable cooking stove used by many settlers as they travelled across the western US by wagon. Consisting of ten decorated cast iron plates that constructed an oven for cooking, with a lower firebox and upper oven box. The Hopewell site fed the pioneers hotcakes and cornbread!
Token depicts the long roof of the cast house and furnace stack on the front, and the blast furnace water wheel on the reverse.Add this one to your collection today!