Greenwood Furnace Railroads

What the fact check changed. CORRECTED. The post was largely right and one detail was wrong in a way a visitor would notice from the parking lot. CONFIRMED from PA DCNR: iron production topped 3,000 tons annually by the early 1880s, and DCNR adds the detail the post omitted, that this made it one of the largest charcoal furnace operations in the state. Freedom Iron began producing locomotive tires, railroad car wheels and axles in 1856 'utilizing iron produced at the Greenwood Works', which does establish the link the post asserted. John Armstrong Wright 'helped found the Pennsylvania Railroad and the city of Altoona'. ADDED, and it is the best line available: 'The iron was hauled by wagons over Stone Mountain to Freedom Iron Works to be turned into wrought iron.' Concrete, physical, sourced, and it was not in the post at all. CORRECTED, 'The furnace stacks still stand at Greenwood Furnace State Park today': not supported. What DCNR says is that Furnace Stack #2 was restored as a monument in 1936, and that six original buildings and the cemetery remain. Plural stacks 'still standing' implies surviving original structures and overstates what is there. The rewrite says exactly what DCNR says. CORRECTED, 'John Armstrong Wright led the company': DCNR does not give him a title at Greenwood or at Freedom Iron. What it says is that John A. Wright and Company purchased the works in 1847. The rewrite says that instead. TIMELINE UNTANGLED: the post ran the early 1880s tonnage straight into the Freedom Iron products, which began in 1856. Both are true and they are decades apart. The rewrite keeps them in order rather than implying one figure describes the other date.