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This is a picture of an old cupola furnace.

Posted by Paul K. Dickman <pkdickman@ameritech.net>.  

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Some day I'll dig up and post pictures of a couple old cupolas in the woods
of Kentucky.

It was in in a state forest, you had to drive down 30 miles of gravel and
dirt roads to get there. When you did, you had to walk down a path to even
see them. It was like discovering Chichenitza. These giant stone pyramids in
the middle of the woods.

Apparently they built them there, not so much for proximity to the ore, but
because there was plenty of wood there to make charcoal. They used a steam
engine to provide the blast.

This is my brother standing in front of one
The red stuff is the omnipresent grafitti.

Paul K. Dickman

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