The Blacksmith Shop was a small frame building with a slate roof like many buildings near the Furnace Stack, where the slate helped protect it from hot sparks. In this always busy iron village, the smith hammered glowing red-hot wrought iron into useful commodities, making shoes for furnace horses and mules, metal straps, latches, handles for pots and stoves, tools, and performing repair work. The work demanded great strength and skill, as the blacksmith pounded metal hour after hour and learned to recognize the proper ring of the hot shoe on the anvil. Archaeology conducted from 1980 to 1982 uncovered the building’s original foundation and hearth, aiding its restoration. The shop became the first complete archaeology and restoration project of the Hay Creek Valley Historical Association, and from 1983 to 1984 volunteers framed the shop, placed the slate roof, used main beams cut at the Joanna Furnace Sawmill, and reconstructed it with mortised and tenoned heavy beams pinned with trenails and band mill cut boards and battens, recording an estimated 1,130 volunteer hours.