National Register of Historic Places

King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71)

Kings Creek, Cherokee County, South Carolina
Listed
May 7, 1987
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
87000707

About this property

King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71) is a historic archaeological site located near Kings Creek, Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States. The site contains a partially collapsed but well-preserved iron furnace built about 1838, retaining walls, sluiceway, stone dam abutments, stone building foundations, large piles of slag, and a large slag levee along the creek bank. It also includes the remains of the site's log framed dam. King's Creek Furnace Site is one of two remaining sites that can be associated with the King's Mountain Iron Company, a major iron manufacturing company that operated in present-day Cherokee County from about 1815 to about 1860. The other site is Jackson's Furnace Site in York County. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Location

Kings Creek, Cherokee County, South Carolina

Categories

INDUSTRYHISTORIC - NON-ABORIGINALENGINEERING
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When was King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71) listed on the National Register?

King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1987.

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King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71) is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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