Blacksmithing – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

David and Caleb Burress

Blacksmiths David and Caleb Burress draw learning and inspiration from their family’s heritage of craftsmanship,...

Doc Cudd traces the blacksmith's trade back more than 400 years in his family, in...

Chuck and Peggy Patrick, natives of Blairsville, Georgia, grew up learning traditional mountain music and...

Blacksmith William S. Rogers, now a resident of Jackson County, North Carolina, has received many...

Growing up in Haywood County, David Burnette was drawn to the old ways that he...

Lyle Wheeler grew up in a family in rural northeastern Pennsylvania surrounded by woodworking and...

Virginia native Elmer Roush has been a blacksmith since 1975, and has devoted himself to...

Born in 1979, Jason Lonon grew up in McDowell County where he spent a three-year...

Bea Hensley learned blacksmithing from Daniel Boone VI, who came from a long line of...

Mike Hensley grew up in Mitchell County in and around his father's smithy, and he...