Carrie Furnace
Carrie Furnace is a retired blast furnace located along the Monongahela River in the Pittsburgh area industrial town of Swissvale, Pennsylvania. It was one of the structures comprising the Homestead Steel Works.Photo: PixOnTrax, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Carrie Furnace Hot Metal Bridge and Roslyn station.
Carrie Furnace Hot Metal Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Rankinbr, Public domain.
The Carrie Furnace Hot Metal Bridge is a railroad truss bridge across the Monongahela River between Whitaker, Pennsylvania, and Rankin, Pennsylvania. The bridge has been out of service since about 1982, when the Carrie Furnace closed. Carrie Furnace Hot Metal Bridge is situated 2,100 feet southeast of Carrie Furnace.
Roslyn station
Bus station
Roslyn is a station on the East Busway, located in Swissvale. Roslyn station is situated 2,400 feet northeast of Carrie Furnace.
Carnegie Fr Lib Of Swissvale
Library
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Carnegie Fr Lib Of Swissvale is a library, which is situated 3,400 feet north of Carrie Furnace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rankin and Swissvale.
Rankin
Village
Photo: Whitaker, Public domain.
Rankin is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 8 miles south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. The borough was named after Thomas Rankin, a local landowner.
Swissvale
Village
Photo: Mchisto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Swissvale is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 9 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh. Named for a farmstead owned by James Swisshelm, during the industrial age it was the site of the Union Switch and Signal Company of George Westinghouse.
Whitaker
Village
Photo: Whitaker, Public domain.
Whitaker is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and is on the Monongahela River 3 miles upriver from Pittsburgh. The population was 1,179 at the 2020 census.
Carrie Furnace
- Type: Ruins
- Also known as: “Carrie Blast Furnace Number 6 and 7”
- Categories: blast furnace and historic site
- Location: Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.41333° or 40° 24′ 48″ northLongitude
-79.89017° or 79° 53′ 25″ westOpen location code
87G2C475+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 3474415988OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q5046232
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In Other Languages
From German to Japanese—“Carrie Furnace” goes by many names.
- German: “Carrie Furnaces”
- Japanese: “高炉”
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