It was the second iron furnace in Lehigh Valley to be fueled by anthracite.

The first furnace of the Glendon Iron company received its power from two waterwheels in the Lehigh Canal.

The waterwheels powered a pair of horizontally positioned blast cylinders.

[4] In 1874, the first furnace of the Glendon Iron Company was rebuilt by William Firmstone with the intent of modernizing it.

[2] The land was secured by the Boston businessman Charles Jackson, Jr.

[4] Due to a decrease in demand for pig iron and difficult economic times, the company closed in 1896.

[3] The steam-blowing engines were bought by the Empire Steel and Iron Company.

[4] The Glendon Iron Company was the largest industry in the vicinity of Easton for large portions of the 1800s.

[4] The leaders of the Glendon Iron Company were capitalists from Boston and Hazleton.

[6] The remaining pig iron was brought to the furnace from New Jersey, via the Morris Canal.

[4] The finished product was then sent to the Morris Canal by the Lehigh Navigation company.

From the Morris Canal, the iron was shipped by sea to New York City[3] and Boston, where it was rolled into bars at the Glendon Rolling Mill and also made into finished products.

[3] Typically, the 25% of the raw ore being used by the Glendon Iron Company was magnetite from New Jersey and the remaining 75% was brown hematite from the nearby Williams Township.