Harmony Forge Mansion
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Harmony Forge Mansion is a historic home and property located at Boggs Township
Boggs Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania
Boggs Township is a township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area...
, Centre County, Pennsylvania
Centre County, Pennsylvania
Centre County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2010, the population was 153,990....
. It was built between 1810 and 1820 by Joseph Miles, and is a 2 1/2 story, 5-bay stone building, with a 2-story stone kitchen wing. It measures 44 feet, 6 inches, by 40 feet. Also on the property are two barns, a twos-story frame dwelling, and the 2,000 feet of earthworks ruins of the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation
Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation
The Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation Company was a canal company in central Pennsylvania intended to link the iron industry of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, with the Pennsylvania canal system. Opened for half its length in 1837, the remainder of the canal was not completed until 1848...
Canal, built about 1847. The property includes the remains of Locks #4 and #5 of this canal. The Harmony Forge, built about 1795, and the workers houses are no longer extant.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1979.