Forest Fires

The Mystery of the Unburned Mansion: The Loss of the Ege Big House and Other Fires at Pine Grove Furnace and Laurel Forge

Lenore Embick Flower's History of Pine Grove Furnace was first presented in 1933 and is now in a 4th edition printed by the Cumberland County Historical Society. This seminal history of the local iron industry contains an apparent error: Flower's confusion about the destruction of the ironmaster's mansion at Pine Grove Furnace.