title: George Cresswell Furnace
text: # George Cresswell Furnace
  
  George Cresswell Furnace, also known as the George Cresswell Furnace Stack is a historic lead furnace located near Potosi, Washington County, Missouri. It was built about 1840, and is an open hearth furnace measuring about 100 feet square at its base and constructed of massive limestone blocks interlaced with mortar. The stack rises to a height of approximately 25 $feet.^{:3}$
  
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
  
  