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

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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1938

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