Clove Furnace Ruin

Clove Furnace Ruin
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Buildings in 2007
Location	Arden, NY
Nearest city	Newburgh
Coordinates
Built	1854
NRHP Reference #	73001243
Added to NRHP	1973

The Clove Furnace Ruin in Arden, New York, USA, was a longtime smelting site for iron ore mined from nearby veins in what is now Harriman State Park. It is located on Arden Station Road just east of the New York State Thruway, and can easily be seen from the highway. It was built in 1854 by Robert & Peter Parrott, who also owned and operated numerous mines in the area, known collectively as the Greenwood Iron Works. Together with the Greenwood Furnace (c.1810), located roughly one half mile east of Clove, these two furnaces produced iron which supplied the Parrott's West Point Foundry at Cold Spring, NY. The foundry produced the famous and highly effective Parrott Rifle (cannon) utilized by the Union army during the Civil War. The furnace shut down permanently, shortly after Robert Parrott's death in 1877.

In 1973, these buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places. They are on Columbia University's Arden property, but open to the public occasionally as a museum.

External links

• Clove Furnace - visiting information