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The Benjamin Blacksmith Shop is a blacksmithy and museum, in operation since before 1885, located adjacent to the Biddle House on Market Street [2] on Mackinac Island in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of Mackinac Island State Park .
The building served both as the Silliman family home and as Arthur Silliman's blacksmith and wagon-building shop. He used the house for a number of years, and in 1903 deeded it to his daughter, Sue I. Silliman. Sue Silliman was a librarian and state historian for the Michigan Daughters of the American Revolution. Her love of history prompted ...
The company immediately began building the new headframes around the old wooden ones. [2] The new headframes were of reinforced concrete, with an interior measurement of 33 feet (10 m) square at the base, eventually tapering to 21 feet (6.4 m) square at the top. A pyramidal roof brought the full height to 96 feet 9 inches (29.49 m). [7]
Crossroads Village is home to 34 buildings, many which are restored 19th-century buildings: it includes the oldest operating gristmill in Michigan as well as a barbershop, blacksmith shop, cider mill, and general store. [1] [7] The T.N. North and Son Bank was moved from Vassar [4] and the town hall was moved from Clayton Township. [8]
The blacksmith shop, built in 1883, is a hipped-roof structure built of rock, measuring 96 feet (29 m) by 54 feet [4] and roofed with corrugated metal. [7] It was originally used as a locomotive house [4] for the narrow gauge Calumet & Hecla railroad. [7] It was later used as a smith shop; an addition was constructed in 1904. [7]
This is a list of blacksmith shops. This is intended to include any notable current ones operating as businesses, as well as historic ones that are operational or not. It includes numerous ones in open-air museums.
In 1819, Oakland County was established, with a county seat at Pontiac. By 1820, Pontiac had a dam, a sawmill, a flour mill, and a blacksmith shop. A courthouse was constructed in 1824, and by 1830 the city of Pontiac was clearly the center of commerce for the county. In 1840, the business district was completely leveled by fire.
This house was built in 1915 for Gottfried Hane, a Swedish-born blacksmith, who emigrated to the United States in 1889. The house was a Queen Anne / Colonial Revival with a hipped roof, multiple gables, and clapboard siding. This house is missing and presumed demolished. 31: M. A. Hanna Company Michigan District Superintendent's House