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The gunsmithing program at Colonial Williamsburg works not only to preserve the form of the American longrifle, but also the tools, techniques and the working conditions under which they were ...
Johnson’s program will include the gunsmiths who worked on Illinois soil during the French Colonial period ... Curt Johnson is a retired tool & die maker with a lifelong interest in antique ...
in the re-creation of the 1750 blacksmith shop in the Colonial Industrial Quarter in Bethlehem. The smithy had workrooms and forges for the nailsmith, locksmith, blacksmith, tinsmith, gunsmith and ...
The Graham family of Madison took time Saturday to see a slice of 18th-century colonial ... frontier — guns, knives, compasses, a canteen, powderhorns, bowls, woodworking tools and a variety ...