Stoves manufactured since 1988 tend to be safer, more efficient (less firewood!), and cleaner burning (less smoke, fewer chimney sweepings!). Cast-iron stoves are still an option — they hold heat more ...

Most of these stoves were not meant for cooking — though Gunsolus owns a few rare examples of stoves that heat and cook, and he has a few antique cast-iron kitchen ranges, as well.

Stoves were often the largest objects in the room of 18th- and 19th-century homes. They were needed for heat and cooking. Cast-iron stoves came in many styles, most cast with curlicues and picture… ...

ATTLEBORO -- This Saturday, the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum will open an exhibit of antique wood- and coal-burning stoves called “Embers of Innovation.” The cast iron stoves have all been ...

In the late spring of 1862, the United States Army established a 1,000-bed hospital on the grounds of what is now Penn Park on the south side of York, Pennsylvania. Over time, the hospital ...