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LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) - Nowadays, many people think of a blacksmith as someone who makes horseshoes and nails them onto the animal’s hooves. Richard Wright, a blacksmith who has been in the trade ...
Blacksmiths first appeared in colonial America in the 18th century. The 19th-century blacksmith worked with the black metals — iron and steel — and used coal and charcoal to fire the forge ...
Betty Kimble, who helped tackle many of Denton's racial inequalities in the 1960s, is a direct descendant of Thomas Cook, whose 19th-century blacksmith shop was unearthed near Bolivar several years ...
I’ve trained as a 19th century blacksmith. (At) a California state park called the Empire Mine State (Historic) Park about an hour west of Lake Tahoe, we literally had a working blacksmith shop ...
When archaeologists uncovered a 19th-century blacksmith shop owned by an African American community leader named Tom Cook in northwestern Denton County, they did not just contact his great-great ...
The Boalsburg Blacksmith Shop would remain in continuous operation for more than a century, from about 1846, when the carriage works factory began operation, to the 1950s, when the last blacksmith ...
Remains of 19th century tools used by blacksmith Tom Cook, a former slave, in Denton County, Texas. TxDOT recently uncovered the artifacts prior to the start of a farm-to-market road project.
How Blacksmiths Forged a Powerful Status Across the Continent of Africa ... Democratic Republic of the Congo, mid- to late 19th century Collection of the MAS, Antwerp, Belgium, ...
LAWRENCE (AP) >> Nowadays, many people think of a blacksmith as someone who makes horseshoes and nails them onto the animal's hooves. Richard Wright, a blacksmith who has been in the trade for more ...