For parking, there is a pull-off. Cache is located just off the Horseshoe Trail. Please be careful in this location for the attributes listed.
There is no need to dismantle or climb upon the furnace remains, cache is about chest high to a dwarf hidden in plain view.. Do not dismantle the walls! Look with your eyes. You'll know when you see it--GASP!
The idea for the subtitle comes from a line from a show called Always Sunny in Philly where the character's portrayal doesn't bring him quite the reaction he was expecting... hence, I'm not going for laughs.. I'm going for GASPS!!!
You guys are going for laughs; laughs are cheap, I'm going for gasps--GASPS is where its at.
Without "ruin"ing the surprise, these ruins (now covered with vines & obscured by trees) are of the Manada Furnace.
This place is near and dear to me as my Third Great-Grandfather was employed here back in the day.
This furnace is of much later date than those in Furnace Hills. It was built in 1836 by the brothers Clement and Edward Grubb, great grandsons of Peter Grubb of Cornwall. Ore was brought here from Cornwall via the Union Canal to Union Deposit and from there by 6-horse teams. Manada produced pig iron, stoves and other iron products, such as pots, kettles, boilers, nails, etc. It was a self-contained community, all 75 residents involved with the furnace. It had a church (United Christian Manada Furnace Church is still in use), general store, smokehouse, casting house, iron master's house (still in use nearby), and 22 log cabins. The furnace closed in 1875. From the parking (pull-off), if you look behind you will see the stone (now private residence) Iron-Master's house. During the 1800's the house served as a store for the employees of the Manada Furnace and an office for the furnace manager who used the 2nd floor as living quarters for himself and family.