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Not much is known about the history of the original blacksmith shop. The oldest known record of the structure is 1771, during the
British Period in St. Augustine. At that time, there were several similarly constructed outbuildings. In 1782 the property was sold to David Morran, who rented one of the
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Blacksmith Shop in late 1967 and completed it in 1968. The home that stood on the site at the time, known as the Judson Property, was demolished in 1967. The Preservation Board's in-house construction crew built the 12 x 16 foot wooden outbuilding from pine logs that
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Antiguo. The board wanted to closely replicate the experience of an 18th-century shop and installed a double forge. Visitors could watch the blacksmith, who was a descendant of early
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