It was the first steam-powered blast furnace to be built in Western Virginia and had a capacity to produce 4 tons of pig iron per day.

They made significant improvements, such as connecting it via tram lines to their ironworks at Ices Ferry.

[2] The furnace may have continued to operate until 1868 when all the Cheat River iron works ceased production.

[4] It is among the ten or more abandoned iron furnaces still existing in northern West Virginia.

This article about a property in Monongalia County, West Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.