Curtin-Eagle Ironworks, also known as Curtin Village, was part of a large iron plantation operated by Roland Curtin and his family from 1810 to 1921. Today, the buildings and grounds have been preserved to give visitors a look into life as it was in a company town in the 1800s. The site includes the waterwheel-powered Pleasant Furnace, the 1847 Eagle Furnace stack, numerous workers houses, four partial walls of the gristmill, 19th century machines and tools, the casting house, the Curtin Family Mansion, built in 1830, the workersa village, a canal and a
late 19th century Victorian frame house.

Tours of the mansion include two floors of the structure that was occupied by the Curtin family until the 1950s. It has been restored by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The Federal style mansion has retained much of its original beauty, including the original floors, woodwork, staircase and many of the windows. Fifteen rooms are furnished with furniture and antiques from the time period 1830-1850. Some of the pieces are original to the house and others, such as an 1873 piano, were donated by descendants of the Curtin family.

Address and Location

251 Curtin Village Road
Howard, PA
16841

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