Redstone Coke Oven Historic District
The Redstone Coke Oven Historic District is located at the intersection of State Highway 133 and Chair Mountain Stables Road outside Redstone, Colorado, United States. It consists of the remaining coke ovens built at the end of the 19th century by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. In 1990, it was recognized as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
View south to Chair Mountain past remaining ovens, 2010
John C. Osgood
Workers building the ovens, 1902
Restoration work, 2011
Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, made by heating coal or oil in the absence of air—a destructive distillation process. It is an important industrial product, used mainly in iron ore smelting, but also as a fuel in stoves and forges when air pollution is a concern.
Raw coke
The original blast furnaces at Blists Hill, Madeley
Illustration of coal mining and coke burning from 1879
Coal coking ovens at Cokedale, Colorado, supplied steel mills in Pueblo, CO