Besides grocery stores and meat
markets, blacksmith shops appear to have been the most popular businesses to inspire
the entrepreneurial spirit in 19th century Cooksville.
Indispensable in their time,
Cooksville’s many blacksmith shops were operated in various locations and for
various lengths of time in the village, although in some cases the records are
not clear as to the exact location or duration of the businesses. With their
red-hot forges and anvils, blacksmith shops were the all-around manufacturing
and repair shops— for farm equipment, wagons and carriages, for horse shoes and
harnesses, for household objects and metal work of every kind—and the shops served
their purpose on into the 20th century.
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| Robertson’s Blacksmith Shop, c.1895 |
