Showing posts with label Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

An Apple A Day

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Today's post takes a look at a trip my husband and I made in September 2021. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site is not too far from...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

A Little Surprise

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 One of the buildings I visited looked, from the outside, like an adorable cottage. I thought I would walk in and see more beds, cooking ite...
Friday, December 8, 2023

The Quilter's Cottage

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 I found the quilting ladies in the building marked as a boarding house. You can tell if they are present as they hang that red and yellow q...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

A Cozy Little Village

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I made a weekend trip to Hopewell Furnace because they were having a quilting bee and I had never really explored the outbuildings in the pa...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

Bonus Post--What Lies Beneath

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Hello and welcome to another bonus post as I play along with Lasting Memories Challenges. I'm using this month's sketch challenge to...
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Friday, October 15, 2021

What a Blast

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The next display was of Hopewell Furnace. Located not too far from Philly it's another local favorite. As with the Valley Forge display,...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Out of the fire

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My last layout for the Meetup trip is of the final steps pouring the molten iron and revealing the finished product. We were a few rows back...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Casting begins

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During our time at Hopewell Furnace, we got to walk through several areas demonstrating the production of iron pieces. The left page focuses...
Friday, March 5, 2021

The best memories are made on the farm

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Hopewell Furnace ran in a time when everyone kept their own farm animals--sheep for wool or meat, chickens for eggs, and horses to pull wago...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Making charcoal

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 The reason for our meetup was the demonstration of making charcoal. This process was done on a much larger scale, and every day, when the s...
Friday, February 19, 2021

My First Meet-up

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 My next journey was not long after returning from Chamizal. It was special in its own way though because the National Park Travelers Club h...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Centennial Part 14--Hot as an oven

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Tuesday morning the club met a little west of Philadelphia at Hopewell Furnace. This park commemorates the era of plantation houses and iron...