New Windsor Cantonment Historic Site
July 4, 2012
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The visitor gets a complete and real life demonstration of what a blacksmith did during Revolutionary times (1780s). The woman increased the fire by manually pumping the forge blower, put one end of a metal rod onto the flame, then set the glowing red end of the metal rod on an anvil and hammered its tip into a "monkey-in-a-barrel" s-shaped head.
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