“General blacksmithing, carriage and wagon making and repairing and horseshoeing include their scope of business, horseshoeing being their specialty.” The review also noted that Stoner and ...

Chockelt. The elder Chockelt was a blacksmith and wagon builder in Germany, not far from the city of Leipzig. The son had learned the trade of his father and when the family moved to South Bend ...

Parks, the owner of Fire Steel Forge in Piedmont, has his blacksmith wagon parked just behind the German tent at the Central States Fair this year. He's been honing his blacksmith skills for 35 years.

He even made the tractor wagon that carts people around the event. Dembitsky will be hosting blacksmith demonstrations at the Old Time Farm Show through Sunday. For more information on custom work or ...

Lack of suitable roads in the early community restricted wheeled vehicles to the occasional ox-drawn farm cart and freight wagon, most of which were the products of local farmers and blacksmiths. By ...

1852: Clem and brother Henry open blacksmith and wagon shop in South Bend with $68 capital. • 1853: Brother John M. heads for California looking for gold, makes wheelbarrows for prospectors ...