The South Mountain Iron Company was the owner of the Pine Grove Furnace in

Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Cumberland County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 259,469. Its county seat is Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Carlis ...

, along South Mountain after the 1864 $1,500,000 (~$ in ) purchase from

Jay Cooke & Company Jay Cooke & Company was a U.S. bank that operated from 1861 to 1873. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with branches in New York City and Washington, D.C., the bank helped underwrite the American Civil War, Union Civil War effort. It ...

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had purchased the

Pine Grove Iron Works The Pine Grove Iron Works was a smelting facility in southcentral Pennsylvania during the Industrial Revolution. The works is notable for remaining structures that are historical visitor attractions of Pine Grove Furnace State Park, including t ...

for $225,000 in 1863.) In 1877 the company was split into separate mining and railway companies, with the latter South Mountain Railway and Mining Company establishing the 1884 South Mountain Railroad between the

and the

Cumberland Valley Railroad The Cumberland Valley Railroad was an early railroad in Pennsylvania, United States, originally chartered in 1831 to connect with Pennsylvania's Main Line of Public Works. Freight and passenger service in the Cumberland Valley in south central P ...

's Carlisle Junction then being purchased by the 1891 Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway company. The real estate of the 1877 South Mountain Mining and Iron Company is now the

Pine Grove Furnace State Park Pine Grove Furnace State Park is a List of Pennsylvania state parks, protected Pennsylvania area that includes Laurel Lake (Cumberland County, Pennsylvania), Laurel and Pine Grove Iron Works#Fuller Lake, Fuller Lakes in Cooke Township, Cumberl ...

and

Michaux State Forest Michaux State Forest is a Pennsylvania State Forest in Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry District #1. The main offices are located in Fayetteville in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, USA. The Michaux State Forest is in several tracts covering ...

after being sold to the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry in 1912-3.

References

{{Reflist Defunct mining companies of the United States Defunct companies based in Pennsylvania History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Ironworks and steel mills in Pennsylvania South Mountain Range (Maryland−Pennsylvania) American companies established in 1865 Non-renewable resource companies disestablished in 1913 1865 disestablishments in Pennsylvania 1913 disestablishments in Pennsylvania Non-renewable resource companies established in 1865