Help Needed for a Blacksmith’s Shop

Have you looked inside the blacksmith shop behind the depot. We have an antique forge. It really can be made to work without a lot of trouble.

There is a bellows.

There is a box of coal.

I personally took apart most of the equipment. I do think that a lot of the blacksmith tools have been pilfered over the last few years. But the anvil remains in the building. And perhaps we can locate some of the other tools and secure the building.

We need someone – one, two or three volunteers to come forward and get the shop in working order. It doesn’t have to do much of anything. But it would be great to have a fire going during country fest or during special tours to have a volunteer smithy pounding on some red hot iron in front of children. If someone could actually make something, all the better.

Here’s the plea for a volunteer to step forward. Let me hear from someone. I’ll go down and show you what we have and you can help serve in the community. And what a good reminder of the heritage of this community. Teague Chevrolet had its roots in a blacksmith shop operated by Hiram Teague’s grandfather on the corner of the square which was sold for the courthouse location in 1912.