Announcement: Self-Guided Tours for 2025
Guided tours will not be offered this summer, as they have been in the past. Instead, self-guided tours will be available. Should there be questions that are not addressed during the tour, please send your inquiries to info@beckleyfurnace.org so that we may enhance the site.
Tour Map: The tour starts here
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.
Proceed to the furnace exhibit in front of you and click on the following link to get started.
Next stop on the tour: Iron Furnace
Shortcuts to all exhibits (refer to figure above):
Mini-Documentary of the Salisbury Iron District:
In the following 30 minute mini-documentary ‘Visions of Iron“, 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.