Visit Beckley Furnace?

Join our experts at the Beckley Furnace.  Walk in the footsteps of the iron makers.  Stand in the hearth where temperatures once reached nearly 3,000 degrees and walk to the only remaining turbine in the Upper Housatonic Watershed used to power the blast for a furnace.  Across the Blackberry River observe the giant slag piles, waste materials remaining from over seventy years of iron production, as well as abandoned machinery from the period.  Hear what life was like for workers in the iron industry a century and more ago.

Beckley Furnace, Connecticut's Industrial Monument, is located on Lower Road, in East Canaan, Litchfield County, CT. 

To reach the furnace, take Route 44 to East Canaan, CT.  Note the historic Canaan Congregational Church on the south side of the road.  Turn South onto Lower Road, passing the Church building and continue for approximately 1/2 mile, turning to the right and down the hill.  The former furnace office -- now, the Barnum & Richardson Building, our Educational and Study Center -- and the furnace stack are visible on your left, with the pond and Blackberry River in the background. 

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The street address of the Office Building and the Furnace itself is 140 Lower Road, East Canaan, CT  06024 (if you prefer to navigate to it using other methods).

See historic topographic maps of the Beckley Furnace area.