You can read more about the Weir City smelter here:
http://www.pittks.org/userimages/smelterhistory.pdf
At the bottom you can see how they "reclaimed" the land and also a photo of the smelter/kiln.
Not much is left of this old location. Just the kiln and some foundations. It's also serving as someone's dump pile of concrete and bricks.
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/smelter1.jpg)
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/smelter2.jpg)
While scoping out this place, I noticed another building. It was of much newer construction, but had a very old looking smoke stack. On the short walk to this building, I noticed some broken pottery strewn about. One of which was labeled.
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/pottery1a.jpg)
After some photoshop work and research, this is what it says:
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/pottery1b.jpg)
So apparently I had stumbled across the old Pittsburg Pottery Company site. Never knew of it before, but there is info about it. Dated around the early 1900s. I imagine there was a reconstruction at one time and the place may have met it's end due to a fire.
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/pottery2.jpg)
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/pottery3.jpg)
One of the beehive kilns, it looks like they were vented to the smoke stack from the bottom.
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/pottery4.jpg)
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/pottery5.jpg)
Just under my feet in this photo is a small collapsed tunnel that leads to the kiln.
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/pottery6.jpg)
And the view from the smoke stack. Fairly roomy.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
![Image](http://www.maxzillian.com/urbanex/pottery7.jpg)
Individually these were alright locations, but to find both of them in plain site of the road and parking lots as pretty surprising.