Buckeye Furnace

123 Buckeye Park Rd. T-167
Wellston, OH 45692
740-384-3537 1-800-860-0144

"These old furnaces played a major role in the development of the iron business and the preservation of one such unit will certainly meet the hearty approval of everyone interested in the history of our country."

--Frank Morrow
Jackson County Historical Society, 1934

Buckeye Furnace is a reconstructed charcoal-fired iron blast furnace with original stack, typical of those operating in southeastern Ohio's Hanging Rock Iron Region more than a century ago.

Visitors to this 270-acre site can see the furnace, originally built in 1852, which went out of blast for the last time in 1894. Attached to the furnace is the reconstructed casting shed. Above the furnace is the charging loft where iron ore, limestone, and charcoal were loaded into the furnace, and the engine house which contained a steam-powered compressor. The reconstructed company store serves as a visitor orientation area. There are two nature trails.

LOCATION

Buckeye Furnace is 10 miles east of Jackson, two miles south of State Route 124 on Buckeye Furnace Road in Jackson County.