Tahawus 📍

From the NL Industries Tailing Pile Road ....

At the Tahawus Tract.

Along NL Tahawus Road, the shoulder of the road consisted of a tailings from the former mining operation. It was remarkably scenic up here.

This massive blast furnace was built in 1854, as part of a speculative effort to mine iron up in Tahawus. However, due to the railroad never making it up this far, and due to wilderness conditions, it was abandoned within 3 years of it's construction and barely ever used.