Blacksmith shops in Catawba Valley, Virginia
Subtitle: archaeological and historical investigations
By: by Thomas S. Klata and John R. Kern
Edition: 3rd revision.
Series: Research report series -- no. 6; Research report series (Virginia. Department of Historic Resources) -- no. 6
Publisher: Virginia Dept. of Historic Resources, Roanoke Regional Preservation Office
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Roanoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Historic sites; Blacksmithing; History; Excavations (Archaeology)
Other titles: Blacksmith shops in Catawba, Virginia :
Description: "The Roanoke Regional Preservation Office of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources conducted a thematic investigation of blacksmiths and their shops in the rural Catawba Valley of northwest Roanoke County, Virginia. Archaeological and historical investigations were conducted on a sample of seven blacksmith shops. The sites represented commercial and farm shops which operated from circa 1850 through circa 1950. These investigations were undertaken to develop a better understanding of the material similarity and variability between blacksmith shops and to chart the diachronic changes in the shops as blacksmithing was transformed during the process of industrialization."--Abstract, page i.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 159-163)