Last updated: April 5, 2021
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Blacksmith Shop at Jimmy Carter Boyhood Farm
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Blacksmith Shop
"Our blacksmith shop was a small building…with…a dirt floor. The forge and anvil, drill press, and emery wheel were used daily to repair farm tools and sometimes to make them. Our horses and mules were shod there, and our plow points sharpened. A few of us did this work routinely, but Daddy handled the more difficult jobs."
Jimmy Carter, 1975 Why Not the Best?
(small picture)Tools in a blacksmith shop from a Sears catalog circa 1930.The building you see in front of you is a reconstruction.
"Our blacksmith shop was a small building…with…a dirt floor. The forge and anvil, drill press, and emery wheel were used daily to repair farm tools and sometimes to make them. Our horses and mules were shod there, and our plow points sharpened. A few of us did this work routinely, but Daddy handled the more difficult jobs."
Jimmy Carter, 1975 Why Not the Best?
(small picture)Tools in a blacksmith shop from a Sears catalog circa 1930.The building you see in front of you is a reconstruction.