Research Catalog

Title

Blacksmith shops in Catawba Valley, Virginia : archaeological and historical investigations / by Thomas S. Klata and John R. Kern.

Author

Klatka, Thomas S.

Publication

Roanoke : Virginia Dept. of Historic Resources, Roanoke Regional Preservation Office, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Kern, John R.
• Virginia. Roanoke Regional Preservation Office.
• Virginia. Department of Historic Resources.
• Roanoke Regional Preservation Office (Va.)

Description

vii, 190 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Research report series ; no. 6

Uniform Title

Research report series (Virginia. Department of Historic Resources) ; no. 6.

Alternative Title

Blacksmith shops in Catawba, Virginia : archaeological and historical investigations

Subject

• Historic sites > Roanoke County
• Blacksmithing > Roanoke County > History
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Roanoke County
• Blacksmithing > Virginia > History
• Roanoke County (Va.) > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (p. 159-163)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

OCLC

32844022

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library