Pioneer Iron Works Blast Furnace
Utah Historic Site
To satisfy an urgent need for manufactured iron products, a small group of English, Welch, Scotch, Irish and American pioneers answered a call from Brigham Young to become "Iron Missionaries" to settle Iron County and to make iron. They arrived in Parowan on January 13, 1851 and produced the first iron west of the Mississippi on September 30, 1852 on this site. Due to economic, social, environmental and technical problems the Iron Works was closed down in October 1858.
Marker is at the intersection of North 100 East and East 400 North, on the right when traveling north on North 100 East.
Courtesy hmdb.org
