The Bunker

What my riding buddy Jim (see picture below) and I call the "bunker" was supposedly an "iron ore washer" that Andrew Carnegie built to wash the iron ore that was mined in the present state game lands where we bike before it was sent to the Pennsylvania Furnace (about 10 miles away), where it was smelted into pig iron before being transported to Pittsburgh. One local "authority" says that Carnegie built a small community (about 40 homes) in this area with the intention of developing a major refining city. However, apparently he changed his mind because of the inherent transportation problems of Central Pennsylvania and eventually decided that Pittsburgh was a better location for building his steel refineries. Anyway, you Californians have Laguna Beach, we have the Bunker!

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