SNOW HILL, Md., - Want to brush up on some local history? Well Furnace Town Heritage Museum in Snow Hill has opened its doors for the 2012 season. Sharing 19th century skills of broom making, blacksmithing, and weaving, the Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum offers a view of The Village of Nassawango during the 1800's.
Lee Johnson, a Blacksmith artisan says, "Its one of the only iron producing businesses here in the Eastern Shore. And I guess it was the forerunner of places like Bethlehem steel, Sparrows point in Baltimore", "This was pre-industrial age here in the United States, and I guess its kind of the great grandfather of the modern steel industry", he continues.
The Furnace Town Living Heritage Museum is scheduled to end October 31st and is 5 dollars for the general public.
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