This historic iron furnace on the National Register of Historic Places is located about 5 miles east of Dover, TN along highway TN49. Here is the text of the historic marker: Joseph and Robert Woods and Thomas Yeatman built the first charcoal cold-blast furnace here in 1830. It used brown hematite ore from local deposits. Destroyed by Union forces in 1862, the present stack was built in 1873, with a railroad to Tennessee Ridge, on the route of the present highway. Operations here were discontinued in 1901.