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Cambria Iron Company, Blacksmith Shop, Lower Works, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

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Cambria Iron Company, Blacksmith Shop, Lower Works, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

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Summary

Significance: The blacksmith shop is the earliest surviving building of the Cambria Iron Company. The shop produced a wide range of metal products throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and contains a steam-powered Chambersburg forging hammer, now converted to electric power.
Survey number: HAER PA-109-A
Building/structure dates: 1864 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1885 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1920 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1920- 1929 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1938 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 89001101

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Date

1938
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Madrid, transmitter
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Location

Walnut Grove (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.)40.32674, -78.92197
Google Map of 40.32674069999999, -78.9219698
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