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This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [ 1 ]
Buffalo Machine Tools of Lockport, New York was created from the machine tool division of Buffalo Forge. 1999: The Howden subsidiary containing the remainder of Buffalo Forge was renamed Howden Buffalo. 2006: The company's 14-acre original manufacturing plant located at 490 Broadway St. in Buffalo was razed.
Hildreth-Lord-Hawley Farm, Pittsford, New York; Old Stone Shop, a double blacksmith shop, Lyme, New York, NRHP-listed; Rowe Farm, South Bethlehem, Albany County, New York; Thorne Memorial School, Millbrook, New York; Grooms Tavern Complex, Saratoga County, New York; Hubbell Family Farm and Kelly's Corners Cemetery, Kelly's Corners, Delaware ...
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers was founded on September 1, 1893. On that day, at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, representatives from the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders, which had been organized on October 1, 1880, and the National Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, which had been formed in ...
An American Civil War-era traveling forge contained 1,200 pounds (540 kg) of tools, coal and supplies. These tools and supplies included a bellows attached to a fireplace, a 4-inch-wide (100 mm) vise, 100-pound (45 kg) anvil, a box containing 250 pounds (110 kg) of coal, 200 pounds (91 kg) of horse shoes, 4-foot-long (1.2 m) bundled bars of iron, and on the limber was a box containing the ...
The American Bladesmith Society, or ABS, is a non-profit organization composed of knifemakers whose primary function is to promote the techniques of forging steel blades.The ABS was founded by knifemaker William F. Moran, who came up with the concept in 1972 when he was Chairman of the Knifemakers' Guild; the following year, he introduced Damascus steel blades at an annual show.
The place where a blacksmith works is variously called a smithy, a forge, or a blacksmith's shop. While there are many professions who work with metal, such as farriers , wheelwrights , and armorers , in former times the blacksmith had a general knowledge of how to make and repair many things, from the most complex of weapons and armor to ...
By 1925, the union had 15,000 members, but would only admit white workers as blacksmiths, black workers being restricted to helper roles. [1] Membership grew to 25,000 in 1950. [ 4 ] On May 16, 1951, it merged into what is now the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers .