Mt. Savage Furnace

ID: 2164
This file appears in: Bourbon Iron Works
Mt. Savage Furnace

The iron furnace shown in this postcard was located in Carter County and constructed in 1848. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Bourbon Iron Works

By Katie Crawford-Lackey
Historical Marker #993 in Bath County notes the history of the Bourbon Iron Works, which was built by Jacob Myers in 1791. Myers moved from Virginia to what would become Kentucky in the early 1780s. Upon his arrival, he purchased thousands of…