Curtin Village

Curtin Village is a former iron-making community on Bald Eagle Creek in Boggs Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. Roland Curtin and Miles Boggs formed the Eagle Ironworks in 1810, and Curtin became sole owner after 1815. The works used local hematite and charcoal, producing bloom, bar and rod iron, and the furnace was in production until 1921. The village was largely self-sufficient, with its own store, church, school and railroad station, and a social order centred on the ironmaster. The surviving ironmaster's mansion, built about 1830, is a two-and-a-half story stone house in the Federal style, and the workers' houses remain on a loop road. The village is significant as a well-preserved example of an early Pennsylvania ironmaster's community, with its furnace stack and housing still largely intact.