Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum, Snow Hill

Name: Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum
Address: 3816 Old Furnace Rd, Snow Hill, United States

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The Old Furnace Town Heritage Museum is an outdoor museum near Snow Hill, Maryland that uses a living history format with live demonstrations to re-create a vanished 19th-century community. The museum contains various historic buildings, including most importantly the Nassawango Iron Furnace, an early 19th-century brick blast furnace that was used to smelt bog iron ore to make pig iron. Other buildings, all of which have been moved to the site, include a church, a store, and several houses, one of which is used as an information center. ()

Coordinates: 38°12'17"N, 75°28'14"W

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3816 Old Furnace RdSnow Hill United States

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Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Julia A. Purnell Museum, Makemie Memorial Presbyterian Church, All Hallows Episcopal Church, Mount Zion One Room School.

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