Blacksmith Shop

Of all the frontier trades, the blacksmith's was the one a settlement could least do without. He shod the horses and oxen, set wagon tires, and forged and mended the tools, hinges, nails, and hardware that everything else depended on — the single shop that kept a town's whole working apparatus moving. This building at the heritage park stands for that craft. In an economy with almost no manufactured goods within reach, the ring of the blacksmith's hammer was, quite literally, the sound of a community keeping itself running.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• This Is The Place Heritage Park — 0.3 mi
  A living history village at the mouth of Emigration Canyon
• Natural History Museum of Utah — 0.7 mi
  A world-class museum built into the foothills above Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 1.0 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views
• Emigration Canyon — 2.0 mi
  The final stretch of trail the Mormon pioneers took into the valley

More markers nearby

• Samuel Jewkes/Henry Draper Home — steps away
• Milo Andrus Home — steps away
• Carpenter's Shop — steps away
• Bodil Mortensen Statue — steps away