Welcome to the Village of Superior, Ohio. Most furnace communities faded away once the furnaces went out of blast. Due to a successful and long-running cement factory constructed a short distance from Center Furnace, the community carried on and prospered under the name of Superior, named after the cement company that was founded on April 17, 1950, with great celebration. Currently, the small village of Superior no longer exists, but very few articles of the rebuilt cement factory are still standing,
Superior, Ohio
Directory of the Iron and Steel Works of the US and Canada 18th Edition, 1916, page 311: Superior Portland Cement Co. see 1908 Directory, page 366, formerly owned Center Furnace at Superior, Ohio. The furnace was abandoned in the last half of 1909.
Centre Furnace, Superior, Ohio
Superior, Ohio, School
Present-day Superior Cemetery
The furnace buildings were dismantled in about 1919 to make room for additional railroad tracks. Stack was demolished in the early 1960s. View from the front of the furnace, looking at the store and boarding house.
View of the brick boardinghouse on the left, company store on the right. The store building burned down in November 1927.
The people are gathered around the southern triangle of the intersection of State Route 522 and County Road 41.
This is a view from behind the company store and boarding house again, showing the rest of the village. The large building to the far right is the Honeymoon Hotel.
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