• Hopewell Furnace Village

    Hopewell Furnace

    National Historic Site Pennsylvania

Park Statistics

Established as a National Park Service area:

August 3, 1938

Park Size:

848.06 acres

Annual Visitation:

2005: 50,578
2006: 49,239
2007: 56,013
2008: 49,328
2009: 53,186
2010: 55,750

2011: 44,873

Annual Budget (fiscal year):

2008: $1,331,000
2009: $1,387,000
2010: $1,406,000
2011: $1,387,000

2012: $1,368,000

Did You Know?

Blacksmith's anvil, used to forge iron on a small scale.

Hopewell Furnace was built initially to supply nearby forges operated by its builder, Mark Bird. The forges heated and hammered the furnace's brittle pig iron bars, driving out much of their contaminate carbon and turning the metal into stronger, more malleable wrought iron.