Sarah Friday's 1810 Granby Drawing
Black Smith Shop (East)
In his 1884 book “Random Recollections of a Long Life, 1806 to 1876,” Edwin J. Scott gives us the only real information we have on the Granby Blacksmith shops.
"When I first collected taxes there (Granby) in 1825, General Henry Arthur, Wolf Hane, son of Nicholas Hane, a rosy old gentleman, owner of the ferry, Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, Friday Arthur and James Cayce, who kept a public house, a mill and blacksmith and coach-making shops, were the most prominent reliques of Granby’s former prosperity."
From this description, we can see that in 1825 James Cayce took over the mill operation from the Friday family. It’s very likely the blacksmith, and coach-making shops are the two blacksmith shops Sarah Friday identified in her 1810 drawing. It’s likely the rough wrought nails Scott mentioned were produced at these blacksmith shops and may be the nails we find in the Granby dig.
Black Smith site #1: Status: Archaeology is possible on the quarry property (Click here to see this location on a map)
Research is still being done on: Black Smith Shop (East)
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