King's Creek Furnace Site (38CK71)

National Register Listing

Street Address:

Address Restricted (Cherokee County)

Alternate Name:

King's Creek Furnace

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NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817711015

Description and Narrative:

The King’s Creek Furnace Site is one of two remaining sites that can be associated with the King’s Mountain Iron Company, a major iron manufacturing company that operated in present day Cherokee County from c.1815 to c.1860. The other site is Jackson’s Furnace Site in York County. The well-preserved furnace has the potential to yield important technological, stylistic, and construction related information about early furnaces. Along with the few other well preserved furnaces in the region, this site's furnace also has the potential to yield important information concerning the variability present across the region if viewed comparatively with other furnaces. The site contains a partially collapsed but well-preserved c.1838 furnace and associated features. These include: retaining walls, sluiceway, stone dam abutments, stone building foundations, large piles of slag, a large levee along the creek bank composed primarily of slag, and remains of the site’s log frame dam, which is still preserved partially buried in the creek bed. Listed in the National Register May 8, 1987.

Period of Significance:

circa 1883

Level of Significance:

National

Area of Significance:

Archeology: Historic - Non-Aboriginal;Engineering;Industry

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

May 8 1987

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