Charlotte Furnace (US-KY)
The short lived Iron Hill Furnace was built on the Lambert Ore Banks on Tygarts Creek by the Riverton Iron and Manufacturing Company in 1873. It was recognized in 1875 and renamed Charlotte Furnace for the daughter of its new owner. Though by then the largest charcoal fueled furnace in the Hanging Fork region, it too failed in only a few years. Still, a community grew up here, soon after the first blast and, on October 21, 1875 the Charlotte Furnace post office was established with Augustus C. Van Dyke, the furnace company's local agent, as its first postmaster. From then through 1951 the post office, was at several sites, and some stores served a fairly large section of northern Carter County. Little remains of the settlement just off the Double A highway (ky9), on the east bank of Tygarts, eight miles northwest of Grayson, only the furnace and the post office bore the Charlotte Furnace name.
Charlotte Furnace Post Office, Carter County (1875-1951)
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