Send a postcard or e-mail, or leave a message, including your family name and your telephone number. PO Box 169. The Iron Furnace Interpretive Center remains open year round, as a self-guided facility. One can stop by at any time and learn about the iron industry that dominated Franconia from 1805 to 1865. Exhibits in a cabin can be viewed through large windows.
Explanatory panels are outside.
Call 823-5000 and leave a message. If you haven't seen the current exhibit on community activites, including all of the organizations that have drawn members from Franconia, now is the time to vist. The exhibit will be removed before winter. At 553 Main Street in Franconia Village, the collection of Sarah Nelson Welch and contributions from other local families are exhibited in a 10-room 1880 Victorian house and connecting shed and barn. It is now the repository for the collection that was begun by Luke Brooks with his numerous promissory notes, and enlarged by his descendants and other local families.