Iron Making: Smelting National Park Service
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site. The blast furnace was where the smelting process was started. In 1646, the original blast furnace roared to life, lit with a 3000 degree fire that was kept burning 24 hours a day for months at a time. The blast furnace is where bog ore was smelted to create cast iron "pig" bars, so named because liquid ...