The red brick house, store, and bakeoven in Mc Alevy’s Fort, at the corner of Pennsylvania routes 26 and 305 are the remains of the 19th century iron industry in the state. There were many iron furnaces in the region, the largest two located nearby at Greenwod Furnace. [1]
In 1844 Robert McBurney built a house across the street from the general store, which was built in 1840. He later acquired the store. The bricks for all of the buildings probably came from a nearby farm that had a large deposit of red clay.
[1] These measured drawings were prepared by Kristine Wilson under the direction of professor Denson Groenedaal of Pennsylvania State University Department of Architecture, and were a submitted entry in the 1988 Charles E. Peterson Prize Competition, an annual contest of the Historic American Buildings Survey, a project of the National Park Service. More information can be found in the Library of Congress, HABS call number PA-5382.