Pigeon Hole Mailbox

ID: 2256
This file appears in: Gerard Furnace
Pigeon Hole Mailbox

This mailbox was used by Robert A. Alexander who owned an iron furnace in Muhlenberg County called Airdrie, which operated at the same time as Gerard Furnace in Calloway County. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Gerard Furnace

By Katie Crawford-Lackey
Historical Marker #1373 in Calloway County commemorates Gerard Furnace, an important producer of pig iron in the far western part of Kentucky during the mid-nineteenth century. The production of pig iron was well suited for Kentucky's…