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Catoctin Furnace was built at the foot of the Catoctin Mountains in Frederick County, Maryland. Originally owned but the Johnson Brothers – James, Baker and Roger, the furnace made cannonballs for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

The furnace had other claims to fame, too.

Rumsey’s Steamboat

Following the Revolutionary War, Catoctin Furnace’s next venture into legend related to James Rumsey’s steamboat. Rumsey was a Maryland inventor who built a steam-powered water-jet that propelled a boat upstream on the Potomac River.

Baker Johnson’s great-great-granddaughter told the Columbia Historical Society in 1913 that Thomas Johnson had been with Washington to witness the steamboat on March 14, 1786 and that some of the machinery was manufactured at Catoctin Furnace.


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