Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site is currently in the process of planning the future course of the park. A General Management Plan to guide the park's efforts for the next several years is in development. To learn more about this management plan and how it is formed, continue in this section and review the developmental process and draft documents now under consideration.
Did You Know?
Iron, like that made at Hopewell Furnace, was the principal metal for use in most applications during the 18th and most of the 19th centuries. Only after the development of large scale production of steel through the Bessemer process did steel overtake iron as the common metal in most products.