BEAUMONT, Texas — A Southeast Texas blacksmith is demonstrating a centuries-old craft at the Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum, showing visitors how metalworkers shaped tools essential to the ...

ROCKTON—The “clang” of the hammer striking the anvil rang out across the grounds of the Macktown Living History grounds Sunday as people gathered for an old-fashioned blacksmithing demonstration.

"One day, we will all cherish the memory of having blacksmiths on every corner," penned American author George Singleton. This powerful quote describes individuals such as the late John Franklin Selix ...

Retired blacksmith John Dittmeier will give a lecture on blacksmithing at the Athens-Clarke County Library. He learned blacksmithing from Bill Gichner, a renowned blacksmith and tool collector. The ...

The original Jackson family blacksmith shop was opened in 1880 by Jeff Mabry’s great-great-grandfather Henry Jackson after he gained his freedom in Goochland County. Jackson was born into slavery in ...

WATERLOO -- Waterloo blacksmithing from 1856 to the present is the topic of the Tuesday program of the Cedar Valley Historical Society. The meeting will start at 7 p.m. at the Grout Museum. Light ...

Mar 11, 2024 Mar 11, 2024 Updated Apr 15, 2025 ROCKTON — Mike Bost was heating bits of iron in his coal-fired forge Sunday and answering question about the art of blacksmithing. He was demonstrating ...

Blacksmithing began with the Iron Age, when somebody noticed that a certain type of rock yielded iron when heated by the coals of a very hot fire. Blacksmithing is the art of crafting that crude metal ...

BS101 – Sponsored by the Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland, Beginner Blacksmithing, is a 2 day weekend course designed to teach the basics of blacksmithing with Instructor, Jim Crusse and Assistant ...

Experience the art of blacksmithing as raw metal is skillfully heated, hammered, and shaped into a razor-sharp edge. This process requires precision, strength, and expertise to refine the metal, ...