Welcome to the Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument. This structure was part of a large ironworks, where workers produced pig iron. Today, the large furnace stack is what remains of the complex.
Beckley Furnace has been designated an Industrial Monument by the State of Connecticut, the first site in the state to do so. Please explore this remnants of northwestern Connecticut’s industrial past. Interpretive signs and QR codes have been placed near the significant remaining structures shown in the figure below to help you appreciate what once took place here.
Watch the 30 minute mini-documentary “Visions of Iron: The Story of the Salisbury Iron District“. Historian and retired educator Ed Kirby weaves a narrative thread through the complex story of iron making in the Salisbury Iron District. Thanks to the Sharon Historical Society.
