Blacksmith Shop
by Mountain Dreams
Title
Blacksmith Shop
Artist
Mountain Dreams
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Implements at the Pioneer Blacksmith & Tin Shop in Weaverville, a popular tourist destination in the Whiskeytown-Shasta National Recreation Area, northwest of Redding, California.
Though it became a museum, the old-time blacksmith shop offered smithing lessons into the 2010s.
In the early years in Weaverville there were as many as eight blacksmith shops in town.
The Pioneer Blacksmith Shop was the principal blacksmith shop and originally stood on Main Street just opposite the existing old Weaverville Volunteer Fire Company���s firehouse. Benton and Armentrout first owned it in the 1870s. They built a new shop in 1885 and it eventually passed to David Davis in 1888. That building was rebuilt in 1905 following the great fire that destroyed it and most of Chinatown.
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February 15th, 2014
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