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Welcome to Furnace ...So far, we found very little information about Furnace. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Furnace to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Furnace, please Contact Us. Furnace would have been located within present day Walker County<2>. We aren't confident of the location of Furnace, so consider the above location as an estimate.<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Furnace, you might consider that their post office opened in 1860. While the community is gone, the present day location for Furnace is 850 feet [259 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Furnace was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel west from Furnace (for example, toward Mentone (AL)), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). Furnace would have been located in the (706) and (762)<5> area codes. Websites for Furnace ...Chamber of Commerce: www.walkercochamber.com/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Furnace, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Furnace ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 14 communities that are also named Furnace - they are located in Alabama, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland (2), Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee (2), Virginia (2) and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Furnace. Communities near Furnace ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Furnace.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Furnace. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Furnace. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Furnace. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Furnace. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Furnace. See our Newspapers Page for Furnace. Adding Furnace to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Furnace in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Furnace was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<8> We also found Furnace in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Furnace. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Walker County: www.co.walker.ga.us/ The official website for State of Georgia: https://georgia.gov/ Footnotes ...
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