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Blacksmiths' tools: Photograph of eighteenth-century-style blacksmiths' tools in a wooden rack. Blacksmith tools include hammers, punches, and tongs. An anvil and hammer sit on a tree stump nearby.; Format: image/photograph

Blacksmith heating metal: Two blacksmiths stand before a forge at an eighteenth-century living history event at Fort Dobbs, North Carolina. The man on the left rests his arms on the lever of a large bellows. The blacksmith on the right heats iron rods in the fire to make them soft...; Format: image/photograph

Blacksmith's bellows: At an eighteenth-century living history event at Fort Dobbs, North Carolina, a blacksmith pulls a wooden lever to operate a large bellows. Blacksmiths needed very hot fires to make their iron soft and pliable. A bellows was used to add air to a fire, making...; Format: image/photograph

Work in Colonial America: Blacksmithing: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.16; A reenactor demonstrates the work of a colonial blacksmith and explains his role in the community.; Format: video

Carpentry skills: In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 18; Carpenters in highland villages generally work with hand tools, using no electricity. Metal parts, generally now imported from the cities, are either forged in the village or bought pre-made from blacksmiths in larger towns. The man shown here is using a large...; By Lorraine Aragon.

Bea Hensley, Blacksmith: A National Heritage Fellowship Award winner, Bea Hensley has been blacksmithing since he was a young man. Today, he and his son give demonstrations of traditional techniques to create fine ornamental ironwork.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Blacksmith cooling metal: After using a hammer to shape a piece of hot metal, a blacksmith cools the newly-made item in a pot of water. This photograph was taken at a demonstration of eighteenth-century life at Fort Dobbs, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Alamance Battleground - Blacksmith: A reenactor demonstrates and explains the work of a colonial blacksmith and his role in the community.; Format: video/video

Blacksmith shaping hot metal: A blacksmith uses tongs to hold a hot iron rod with his right hand. With his left, he swings a hammer, shaping the metal. After being heated in the fire, the red-hot iron is soft enough to be easily bent and manipulated. This photograph was taken at an eighteenth-century...; Format: image/photograph

Bar iron and smith's tools: The artifacts in this photograph were found in an excavation at the site of colonial Jamestown in Virginia. The photo was originially published in the National Park Service publication New Discoveries at Jamestown: Site of the First...; Format: image/photograph

A blacksmith working at Tryon Palace in New Bern, NC: This is a blacksmith working at Tryon Palace in New Bern, North Carolina. This young man is doing a full-time apprenticeship in blacksmithing. Tryon Palace was built in 1767 to serve as the home to the Royal Governor who was appointed by the ruling monarch...; Format: image/photograph

Porters in Ulleri: Porters climb the steps leading into Ulleri, a small Magar village in the Annapurna region of Neapal. Nepal is home to approximately 400 ethnic groups and the Magar tribe represents 7 percent of the country's total population. The Magars are traditionally...; Format: image/photograph

Excerpt from William Henry Singleton slave narrative: William Henry Singleton was born into slavery in eastern North Carolina. This excerpt from his memoir describes his experience of being sold to a "slave farm" in Atlanta -- a place where young slaves were bought for a low price and then raised until they could be sold for a higher price.; Format: book

John C. Campbell Folk School: The Folk School offers visitors a chance to experience a special blend of history, art, and natural beauty in the mountains of Western North Carolina.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Highland man sawing board with hand tools outside house in Mai Chau: A highland man wearing just shorts uses a large frame saw to cut a board outside an elevated wood house in Mai Chau. The man braces the board with one foot against the top of his handmade work bench. A hammer rests on the bench in the foreground. Wooden stairs...; Format: image/photograph

Western Carolina University Mountain Heritage Center: The Museum provides exhibitions and programs that illustrate many of the complex issues and concerns of Appalachia's diverse people and cultures. Students discover how history relates to their own lives as they explore the many themes relevant to western North Carolina's past, present, and future.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Stone Mountain State Park: This park not only allows enjoying the beauty of the area but also provides instruction in basic geologic concepts.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony: In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 6.4; During the Civil War, former slaves freed by the Union army and African Americans who escaped to Union lines were given a village on Roanoke Island.; Format: article

Mapping the Great Wagon Road: In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.2; The Great Wagon Road took eighteenth-century colonists from Philadelphia west into the Appalachian mountains and south into the North Carolina Piedmont. This article describes the route and its history and offers two detailed maps, one from 1751 and one from the present, for comparison.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

Expanding to the west: Settlement of the Piedmont region, 1730 to 1775: In Colonial North Carolina, page 5.1; The population of North Carolina's Piedmont region more than doubled in the decade from 1765 to 1775. Most of the settlers who arrived during that time were European Americans traveling from the North via the Great Indian Trading Path and the Great Wagon Road.; Format: article; By Christopher E. Hendricks and J. Edwin Hendricks.

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