Furnace Pictures 

This is about what the furnace looks like now, a late 1980's photo by your blogger.

A Williams family box camera snapshot from the 1920's,
The Stager family home is on the "Furnace Bank"

at the upper left, much more on the three generations
of the Stager's who lived here later on.

 For those who are not familiar with furnace terminology the "Furnace Bank" is a level piece of ground behind, and  roughly the same height as the top of the furnace. In this picture the furnace seems to be as tall as the top of the house, this is because of the angle that this picture was taken from; if you walk up the hill today you will see the top of the furnace and the ground level of the furnace bank are almost the same. When the Swatara Furnace was in operation a bridge went from the furnace bank to the top of the furnace, this was where workers crossed to dump loads of charcoal, limestone and ore into the top of the furnace.

It's about time to get this post on the way, I hope to have some Ledger Book information on my next post.