 This furnace was built in 1803 by Daniel Eaton and is mentioned in the first line of the 1995 Bruce Springsteen song "Youngstown".The Hopewell Furnace thrived for a little over ten years until John Struthers reached his financial crisis in 1812.In 1869 Struthers again became an iron-producing community with the construction of the Anna Furnace by the Struthers Iron Company.