Built in 1837 along the Chambersburg Pike as part of the Caledonia Iron Works, this blacksmith shop was erected by partners John Paxton and Thaddeus Stevens. After the Battle of Gettysburg, only its stone walls remained, but the shop was rebuilt and operated until 1895, twenty years after the iron furnace closed. Thaddeus Stevens, a businessman, lawyer, congressman, and father of the 14th Amendment, pressed President Lincoln during the Civil War to use African-Americans as soldiers and to free the slaves. After Stevens' Caledonia Iron Works, now the site of Caledonia State Park, was burned, he supported unemployed families for as long as three years. Jubal Early, a Virginian, West Point graduate, and state legislator who had voted against secession but returned to the army in defense of his state, defied orders not to destroy private property during the invasion of Pennsylvania and, angered by Stevens' advocacy of confiscation and devastation against the South, declared that he was determined to destroy the iron works. On June 26, 1863, Early put the Caledonia Iron Works to the torch.