Charlie Coleman of Silver Point is one of the last of Middle Tennessee's old time blacksmiths, the newspaper writes this week in a profile of the 78 year old craftsman.
People needing blacksmith services come from 30 and 40 miles away to Coleman's shop. He's given up shoeing horses because of his health, but he still makes harnesses and wagon accessories the old way, with hammer and tongs over a bed of hot coals.
Born at the head of Indian Creek in Buffalo Valley, his father lost an arm fighting for the Confederacy in the battle of Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga. Ironically, his mother was also one armed, he says. She lost an arm in a sorghum mill accident as a young woman.
Coleman learned his trade as a young man and has practiced it all his life.
Herald Citizen Newspaper, 9 October 1955.
Charlie Coleman of Silver Point is one of the last of Middle Tennessee's old time blacksmiths, the newspaper writes this week in a profile of the 78 year old craftsman.
People needing blacksmith services come from 30 and 40 miles away to Coleman's shop. He's given up shoeing horses because of his health, but he still makes harnesses and wagon accessories the old way, with hammer and tongs over a bed of hot coals.
Born at the head of Indian Creek in Buffalo Valley, his father lost an arm fighting for the Confederacy in the battle of Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga. Ironically, his mother was also one armed, he says. She lost an arm in a sorghum mill accident as a young woman.
Coleman learned his trade as a young man and has practiced it all his life.
Herald Citizen Newspaper, 9 October 1955.
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