Hanover Furnace

Hanover Furnace is a New Jersey historical marker in right hand side, Burlington County, dedicated 1936.

Intersection Route 40 and Browns Mills road, right hand side · location approximate

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Nearby, not far from the Province Line, are the ruins of Hanover Furnace, built about 1792. Here, during the War of 1812, were cast cannon balls, shells, and cannon for the Federal Government. The furnace was abandoned in 1863-64.

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1794 · New Jersey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1794 · A new and general map of the middle dominions belonging to the United States of America… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1795 · Pennsylvania (Lewis, 1795) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · New Jersey (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1818 · New Jersey (1818) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

New Jersey, 1794, covering the location of Hanover Furnace, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — New Jersey, 1794, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Hanover Furnace

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